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The trapezoidal paved forum (37 x 34 m) of Banasa (also Iulia Valentia Banasa), an ancient city of the province of Mauretania Tingitana (modern-day Morocco). The forum was lined by porticoes and flanked to the north by a rectangular basilica...

A villa complex at Lixus on the Atlantic coast (modern-day Morocco) from the time of Juba II (c. 48 BCE to 23 CE), the ruler of Mauretania. The palace-like residence was approximately 7,000 square metres with a long portico, a triclinium...

The small amphitheatre at Lixus, modern-day Morocco, had a semicircular cavea (seating section) designed to house theatrical plays and gladiatorial combats.

The Decumanus Maximus was the main east-west street of the ancient city of Volubilis (modern-day Morocco). It was paved with footways on either side and was lined with arcaded porticoes and shops.

A Roman mosaic in the House of Venus in Volubilis (modern-day Morocco) depicting Diana and a nymph surprised by the hunter Actaeon while bathing. In revenge, the goddess turned Actaeon into a stag. He was then killed by his dogs. The mosaic...

Fish-salting and garum-manufacturing workshops in Lixus (modern-day Morocco). The complex had 23 closely-spaced vats (cetariae) and functioned from 40/60 CE to the early 6th century CE. The factory had a salting capacity of over one million...

The Capitolium of Volubilis in modern-day Morocco with its porticoed courtyard and single cella was a temple dedicated to Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva. It was completed under the reign of Emperor Macrinus in 218 CE. Erected on a tall podium...

The House of Orpheus at Volubilis (in modern-day Morocco) takes its name from the large mosaic depicting Orpheus playing the lyre to an audience of animals and birds. The mosaic embellished the house's triclinium (dining room), where the...

This mosaic depicts the twelve labours the demigod Hercules had to perform as penance for killing his wife and children. It decorated the triclinium (dining room) of the so-called House of the Labours of Hercules in Volubilis (modern-day...

The Capitolium of Sala Colonia (modern-day Rabat in Morocco), a temple dedicated to the Capitoline Triad (Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva), was built on two terraces arranged on a rectangle 46 m long and 26 m wide. It was subdivided into several...