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Places · Place profile Dougga / Thugga A hilltop city in Tunisia where Numidian, Punic and Roman evidence survives together, including a famous bilingual inscription.
Places · Place profile Cirta / Constantine The city beneath modern Constantine was a Numidian royal centre whose history can be followed through texts, coins and inscriptions.
Languages and scripts · Article How to Read an Ancient Inscription Without Inventing Its Story Discover how Libyco-Berber inscriptions are studied, why bilingual texts matter, and what a modern Tifinagh alphabet can and cannot tell you.
Places · Place profile Numidia The ancient North African kingdom, later a Roman province, covering much of what is now northern Algeria and western Tunisia.
Ancient history · Article Numidia and Massinissa: The Rise of a North African Kingdom Massinissa unified Numidia in the second century BCE and built a North African kingdom with cities, coinage and its own diplomacy. Here is what the evidence actually shows.
Learning resources · Learning resource Read a historical source without overclaiming A printable evidence worksheet: author, date, transmission, claim, uncertainty and corroboration.
Languages and scripts · Article Tifinagh: The History and Revival of Amazigh Writing Tifinagh descends from the ancient Libyco-Berber script, survived among Tuareg communities, and was standardised as Neo-Tifinagh for modern Amazigh education. Here is the full history.