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.
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.