Probably not from Thamugadi. I think it was a frontier city with a garrison used to project Roman occupied territory to the north where the arable land was.
What is a Scotsman doing in Algeria? I love it how the story of colonialism (starting 1830, which was as violent in Algeria as elsewhere) is told without any context. Just brave, "imposingly tall and broad"... sure. National Geographic will never change, I guess.
As the article mentions, he was the British consul in Algiers from 1763 to 1765. At the time, Algeria was a vassal state in the Ottoman Empire and far from being colonized by Europeans. On the contrary, during the 17th century Britain had excellent relations to the Barbary pirates of the region, cooperating against Spain and France in the form of Anglo-Turkish piracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Turkish_piracy
>Horrible Romans were so violent. What have they ever done for us? Well, besides roads and the aqueduct, but other than that?
Exactly. The same people who claim about colonialism are the same ones who complain about intertribal warfare when we leave. We should be thanking colonialists for bringing Peace to the places they conquered, a peace which has washed away since decolonization.
There's 40 million Irish descendants in the US. The Irish weren't wiped out, they just left. Also it's hard to take that concern seriously when today's Irish government has done more to increase foreigner control over Ireland than the British government ever did.
I am curious how these discoveries are made and excavated. There are some large structures here. Were they sticking out of the sand or completely buried? Hard to imagine 20-30 feet of sand covering it all. Makes you wonder what else is buried in various deserts around the world.
The word is actually Berber - Amazigh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timgad
Interesting though to see that the same word means something to someone else in another culture.
We're all connected somehow.
This article seems to get Numidia screwed up twice — once calling it Mumidia, and once referring to it as Nubia! It was a really important region politically, especially in the lead up to the fall of the republic. Come on, Nat Geo...
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[ 4.1 ms ] story [ 46.2 ms ] threadHorrible Romans were so violent. What have they ever done for us? Well, besides roads and the aqueduct, but other than that?
Exactly. The same people who claim about colonialism are the same ones who complain about intertribal warfare when we leave. We should be thanking colonialists for bringing Peace to the places they conquered, a peace which has washed away since decolonization.
Signed Ireland.
Signed Scotland.
They “just left” because the British starved them.
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In the case of a Roman fortification such as Thamugadi probably written sources such as maps, lists for military or commercial use, history and so on.
Tha(give me) + mugadi (mugam+adi)(faceprint/ witness/ bless).