4 legends, 1 gem & mineral ground on the free Club 49 adventure map
What the map holds here
Algerian Hoggar & the Saharan meteoritesGem & mineral ground The Sahara is the best meteorite-hunting ground on Earth: dark stones on pale sand, essentially no rain to weather them, and a vast unpopulated surface, and huge numbers of the world’s catalogued meteorites are Northwest African... Open it on the map
DjémilaLegend A Roman garrison town called Cuicul, founded in the first century AD on a narrow triangular plateau 900 metres up in the mountains of Numidia, and the reason it is a World Heritage Site is that the ground would not let the Romans... Open it on the map · Read the story
Tassili n’AjjerLegend In the middle of the Sahara, on a sandstone plateau in southeastern Algeria, are fifteen thousand engravings and paintings up to twelve thousand years old, showing hippos, crocodiles, herds of cattle and swimming figures, in... Open it on the map · Read the story
The M’zab ValleyLegend Five fortified towns built on the rock of a limestone plateau between 1012 and 1350, by Ibadi Berbers who had lost an argument with the rest of Islam and came south into the desert to be left alone. El Atteuf is the oldest, then... Open it on the map · Read the story
TimgadLegend Trajan founded this as a colony for retired soldiers around AD 100 and the surveyors laid it out as a perfect grid, the decumanus running east to west and the cardo north to south, crossing at the forum, built for about 15,000... Open it on the map · Read the story
Every one of these is sourced
Each entry links to the record it came from. Access rules, permits and land status vary by country and are noted where the source states them, check locally before you go.
