(ANSAmed) - ALGIERS, OCTOBER 21 - At least 60 archaeological
sites and almost unknown monuments of the wilaya (province) of
Souk Ahras in Algeria have been catalogued by a team of Italian
archaeologists from the University of Trento in collaboration
with a group of Algerian experts.
Operations for the cataloguing of sites, reports APS, have been
underway since September 15 and are part of a project conducted
jointly by the University of Trento and the Algerian National
Archaeological Research Centre which aims to draw up a map of
the individual sites in the country's eastern regions.
An initial cataloguing was carried out in Souk Ahras in 2009 and
the campaign underway has been extended to the territories of
the villages Ouled Driss, M'daourouch, Taourit and Drea.
The most interesting aspect of the team's works, which make use
of digitalisation processes for data gathering, is that most of
the sites catalogued are farms, houses and oil mills, as well as
the control tower network dating back to the Byzantine era found
not far from the city of Taourit. (ANSAmed).
Archaeology:Algeria, Trento university team catalogues sites
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