The Royal Mausoleum of Mauretania Mausolée royal de Maurétanie الضريح الملكي بسيدي راشد تيبازة‏ قبر الرومية

Algeria / Tibazah /
 tomb(s), mausoleum, interesting place
The monument was built in 3 BC by the last King of Numidia, and later King of Mauretania, Juba II, and his wife Cleopatra Selene II. Cleopatra Selene II was an Egyptian Greek Ptolemaic princess, the daughter of the Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Roman Triumvir Mark Antony. Through her marriage to Juba II, she became the last Queen of Numidia and later Queen of Mauretania.

The mausoleum is probably the Royal Tomb that the 1st-century Roman geographer Pomponius Mela (1.31) described as the monumentum commune regiae gentis ("the communal mausoleum of the royal family"). If the geographer’s description of the mausoleum is correct, then the building was not intended just for Juba and Cleopatra, but envisaged as a dynastic funeral monument for their royal descendants.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Mausoleum_of_Mauretania
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Coordinates:   36°34'29"N   2°33'10"E

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