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Madaure Archaeological Site

Madaure, in Latin Madaurus, from which the name M'daourouch comes, is an ancient Roman city located 45 km from Thaghaste (currently Souk-Ahras) in the north-east of Algeria. Its creation dates back to 75 BC during the reign of the Roman Emperor Vespasian. This city successively experienced Berber, Roman, Vandal and Byzantine invasion. Considered a center of educational influence, it was distinguished by its university, one of the first with Carthage on the African continent. History reveals to us the names of two great teachers: Maximus the grammarian and Apuleius the rhetorician. Among Madaure's students was the philosopher and theologian Saint Augustine, founder of the religious thought of Catholicism. Seven and a half hectares have been the subject of excavations recorded since 1905 on the surface area of ​​the archaeological park classified since 1968. The same park contains remains which still resist the vicissitudes of time.