Djémila – Lost City Of The Ancient Kingdom Of Numidia

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - When Albert Camus (1913 -1960) wrote about Djémila, a ruined Roman city in the mountains of Northern Algeria, he said this beautiful, long-abandoned place is inhabited by the wind alone.

The ancient lost Roman city of Djémila. Credit: Yves Jalabert - CC BY-SA 2.0

Camus wrote in Noces (Nuptials) that when you walk among the city's ancient ruins, you can hear the wind which "pounces fitfully on the remains of the houses, on the immense forum that extends from the triumphal arch to the temple." He described the ancient lost city of the Numida kingdom as a "great cry thrown out by the lugubrious and solemn stones at the mountains, the sky, and the silence."

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