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- Earth, Water and Community: Reading Amazigh Architecture Explore Aït-Ben-Haddou, the M’Zab, Ghadamès and oasis water systems through the practical choices that make settlements work.
- Where Is Tamazgha? Mapping the Amazigh Cultural Homeland Tamazgha is a modern Amazigh term for the indigenous homeland stretching from the Atlantic to Siwa and into the Sahel. Here is what it includes, where the term came from, and why it is not a border.
- Numidia The ancient North African kingdom, later a Roman province, covering much of what is now northern Algeria and western Tunisia.
- Mauretania (the ancient kingdom) The ancient kingdom and later Roman provinces of north-western Africa — modern northern Morocco and western Algeria — not the modern state of Mauritania.
- Kabylia The mountainous region of northern Algeria east of Algiers, heartland of the Kabyle language and of the modern Amazigh cultural movement.
- The Rif Northern Morocco’s Mediterranean mountain region, including Tarifit-speaking areas and Arabic-speaking districts, with histories of resistance and migration.
- The Souss and Anti-Atlas The fertile Souss plain and the arid Anti-Atlas of southern Morocco: Tashelhit-speaking country with collective granaries, argan woodland and a long commercial reach.
- The High and Middle Atlas Morocco’s central mountain ranges: cedar plateaux, high peaks and valley systems that shaped pastoral economies, customary law and the movements that founded empires.
- The Aurès Mountains The high massif of eastern Algeria, Tacawit-speaking, associated with the resistance tradition of Dihya and with the launch of the Algerian war of independence.
- The Mzab Valley Five fortified Ibadi towns in the northern Algerian Sahara, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most remarkable urban traditions in North Africa.
- The Nafusa Mountains The escarpment of north-western Libya, an early centre of Ibadi learning and the heartland of Libya’s Amazigh communities.
- Siwa Oasis The oasis in Egypt’s Western Desert that is the easternmost Amazigh-speaking community, site of the ancient oracle of Amun and of the salt-built town of Shali.
- The Ahaggar (Hoggar) The volcanic massif of the central Algerian Sahara, a core Tuareg region and neighbour to the rock-art plateau of the Tassili n’Ajjer.
- Cirta / Constantine The city beneath modern Constantine was a Numidian royal centre whose history can be followed through texts, coins and inscriptions.
- Dougga / Thugga A hilltop city in Tunisia where Numidian, Punic and Roman evidence survives together, including a famous bilingual inscription.
- Volubilis / Walila The archaeology of Volubilis reaches beyond its Roman monuments into an early medieval town and the beginnings of Idrisid rule.
- Marrakesh A living city whose monuments and objects connect an Almoravid foundation, Almohad rule and later Moroccan history.
- Tinmel The High Atlas site associated with Ibn Tumart and an Almohad memorial mosque, severely damaged in the 2023 earthquake.
- Sijilmasa The medieval Tafilalet city whose markets, mint and oasis landscape connected the Maghreb with the Sahel.
- Qal’a Beni Hammad Mosque, palaces and mountain defences at the first Hammadid capital in the central Maghreb.
- Tassili n’Ajjer A sandstone plateau whose paintings, engravings and archaeological remains record changing Saharan worlds across millennia.
- Djerba A Tunisian island whose language communities, religious connections and dispersed settlement history require attention at different scales.
- Timgad The Roman colony of Thamugadi: a planned grid, a growing city and changing buildings on the northern side of Algeria’s Aurès Mountains.
- Djémila Cuicul’s streets, forum, mosaics and Christian buildings show how a Roman city developed within the constraints of a mountain landscape.
- Tipasa Punic exchange, Roman and Christian buildings, the royal Mauretanian mausoleum and the modern work of protecting a coastal archaeological landscape.