Archaeological Site of Volubilis in Morocco situated near the city of Meknes.
The Amphitheatre of El Jem, formerly Thysdrus in the Roman province of North Africa(Tunisia).
Archaeological site of Sbeitla(Tunisia).
Macrinus(AD 165-218) was Roman Emperor. A native of North Africa(Berber origin) and was the first man to rule the empire without having achieved senatorial status.
Lusius Quietus was a Roman general(native of North Africa) and governor of Judaea in AD 117. He was notably one of the most accomplished Berber(Amazigh) statesmen in ancient Roman history.
Stylised Moorish(Berber) Cavalry under Lusius Quietus, fighting against the Dacians. From the Column of Trajan.
Aemilian, was Roman emperor for three months in 253. He was a Moor(Berber, native of North Africa) and was born at Djerba(Tunisia).
Quintus Lollius Urbicus was a Berber Numidian governor of Roman Britain between the years 139 and 142, during the reign of the Emperor Antoninus Pius.
(Bust of Antoninus Pius).
"Quintus Lollius Urbicus was born in the Roman province of Numidia, modern Algeria. His father was a modest landowner, himself the son of a Berber tribesman."
The tutor(teacher) of Marcus Aurelius(famous Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher) was Cornelius Fronto, grammarian, rhetorician, and advocate, a native of North Africa(Berber origin).
(Bust of Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius: "Thanks to Fronton, I was able to observe that a tyrant can feel extreme jealousy, and can be extremely hypocritical and deceitful, and that those whom we call patricians have, for the most part, little kindness and affection in the heart."
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