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Timgad (Arabic: تيمقاد, romanized: Tīmqād, known as Marciana Traiana Thamugadi) was a Roman city in the Aurès Mountains of Algeria. It was founded by the Roman Emperor Trajan around 100 AD. The full name of the city was Colonia Marciana Ulpia Traiana Thamugadi .
The Arch of Trajan is a Roman triumphal arch located in the city of Timgad (ancient Thamugadi), near Batna, Algeria. It was built between the later 2nd century and the early 3rd century. The three vaulted arch composed the western gate of the city, at the beginning of the Decumanus Maximus and the end of the road coming from Lambaesis.
Optatus of Thamugadi was, from 388 to 398, a donatist bishop in the city of Thamugadi in the Roman province of Numidia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He was an important subject in the anti-donatistic polemic of Augustine , [ 4 ] who was at that time a bishop in Hippo Regius and who called him evil.
This mining city was once home to 5,000 people before becoming completely abandoned nearly one hundred years later.
Marculus of Thamugadi or simply Marculus was a prominent bishop and Christian martyr venerated by the 4th-century North African Donatist Church. Marculus, a bishop of Thamugadi in Numidia , rose to prominence in 347 A.D. during the Macarian campaign , in which Emperor Constans attempted to force church unity in North Africa .
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The World Without Us is a 2007 non-fiction book about what would happen to the natural and built environment if humans suddenly disappeared, written by American journalist Alan Weisman and published by St. Martin's Thomas Dunne Books. [1] It is a book-length expansion of Weisman's own February 2005 Discover article "Earth Without People". [2]
The author reflects on the curious state of the abandoned city and gives a brief mention of the fauna that inhabit the ruins, apparently describing maned wolves and kangaroo rats. It is anachronistically mentioned that João Antônio (the only member whose name was preserved) found a gold coin in one of the houses they searched, which depicted ...