Roknia dolmen

Dolme in Roknia

The Roknia dolmens are located near the Algerian town of Roknia , in the Guelma province . The roughly 3,000 stone graves and several thousand rock graves carved into the cliffs are spread over an area of ​​around two square kilometers. Almost all of the tombs in Roknia were created between the Neolithic Age and the Phoenician colonization of North Africa.

The French general Louis Faidherbe (1818-1889) visited the facility in 1868 from an anthropological point of view. His collection of bone finds and grave goods can be seen in the National Museum of Bardo in Algiers . He claimed that the "Libyans" (Berbers) were neither Semites nor Hamites , but had immigrated from the Baltic States .

Coordinates: 36 ° 44 ′ 55.6 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 35.2 ″  E

Web links

• Images of the necropolis
• Brief description of the facilities (French)

Remarks

1. ^ Henri Wallon: Notice historique sur la vie et les travaux du général Louis-Léon-César Faidherbe, grand chancelier de la légion d'honneur, membre libre de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres , Comptes rendus des séances de l ' Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 36.6 (1892) 444-480, here: p. 463f.