In the windswept fields of northwest Tunisia, I stood amazed in front of an impressive pre-Roman 2nd-century- BCE Libyco-punic three-storied mausoleum, built in honor of a Numidian prince.
I had at last arrived at the lap of ancient North African history in the Numidian-Roman city of Dougga.
The history of North Africa-also known as Maghreb-is