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Description. Before, during, and after the existence of the ancient Berber kingdoms of Numidia (northern Algeria, 202 BC–40 BC) and Mauretania (northern Morocco, 3rd century BC – 44 AD) many inscriptions were engraved using the Libyco-Berber script, although the overwhelming majority of the found ones were simple funerary scripts, with rock art, cave art, graffiti, and even a few official ...
Masinissa ( Numidian: , Masnsen; c. 238 BC – 148 BC [3] : 180, 183 ), also spelled Massinissa, [4] Massena and Massan, [5] was an ancient Numidian king best known for leading a federation of Massylii Berber tribes during the Second Punic War (218–201 BC), ultimately uniting them into a kingdom that became a major regional power in North ...
Gaia ( Numidian: GJJ) [1] [2] (died 207 BCE) was a Berber king of the Massylii, [3] an eastern Numidian tribe in North Africa. Gaia reigned during the Second Punic War of ancient Rome. He was the father of King Masinissa, [4] and the brother of Oezalces. [5]
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Numidian cavalry is first mentioned by Polybius as part of the Carthaginian army during the First Punic War. [1] The Numidian cavalry's horses, ancestors of the Berber horse, were small compared with other horses of the era, and were well adapted for faster movement over long distances. [2] [unreliable source] Numidian horsemen rode without ...
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The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian ), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara and Sahel. [4] Over 500 million people are native speakers of an Afroasiatic ...
