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Today, many artefacts found at Volubilis can be seen on display in the Rabat Archaeological Museum. UNESCO listed Volubilis as a World Heritage Site in 1997. In the 1980s, the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) organised three conferences to assess possible nominations to the World Heritage List for sites in North Africa.
Archaeological site of Volubilis: Fès-Meknès: 1997 836bis; ii, iii, iv, vi (cultural) Volubilis was founded in the 3rd century BCE as the capital of Mauretania. It was then an important Roman outpost and in the 8th century briefly the capital of the Idrisid dynasty. Afterwards, the site was not occupied for nearly a thousand years.
Archaeological Site of Volubilis: Meknes, Morocco: Cultural: (ii), (iii), (iv), (vi) 42 (100) 1997: The important Roman outpost of Volubilis was founded in the 3rd century BCE to become the capital of Mauretania. It contained many buildings, the remains of which have survived extensively to this day.
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Divers uncovered several ancient Roman artifacts off the coast of Croatia. The discoveries were made during an expedition near Host — a small Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea — in September ...
C. Michael Hogan, Volubilis, The Megalithic Portal, ed. Andy Burnham (2007) Barnaby Rogerson (2000} Marrakesh, Fez and Rabat , New Holland Publishers, 290 pages ISBN 1-86011-973-5 This article about a building or structure in Morocco is a stub .
After the withdrawal of Rome, Christian Berbers continued to inhabit Volubilis until the seventh century AD (Bidwell, 2005). Volubilis has been designated as a World Heritage Site . Also nearby is the town of Moulay Idriss Zerhoun , site of the mausoleum of Idris I .
Today, the ksar itself is only sparsely inhabited by several families. [3] The depopulation over time is a result of the valley's loss of strategic importance in the 20th century. Most local inhabitants now live in modern dwellings in the village on the other side of the river, and make a living off agriculture and especially off the tourist trade.