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Romans are always the first

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21 September 2018
Atlas Mountains
Atlas Mountains

When, during the conquest of Algeria in 1850, the French general Saint-Arnaud was crossing with his army the Atlas Mountains, through the Kang Pass, he thought he was the first European to take this path.

However, he was disappointed, when he saw a Latin inscription engraved on the rock proclaiming that the III legion of Augustus in 145 CE built a road here.

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Gaul in the 1st century BCEGallic Wars Battle of Philippi in 42 BCEWars of second triumvirate Busts of Julius Caesar and Pompey the GreatGreat Roman civil war Bust of Augustus with corona civicaAugustus Roman-Macedonian clashBattle of Aoi Stena gorge
Sources
  • Bonnie Effros, Incidental Archaeologists: French Officers and the Rediscovery of Roman North Africa
  • Anne Glyn-Jones, Holding Up a Mirror: How Civilizations Decline

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