On the shores of the Mediter­ranean, Tipasa was an ancient Punic trad­ing-post con­quered by Rome and turned into a strate­gic base for the con­quest of the king­doms of Mau­ri­ta­nia. It com­pris­es a unique group of Phoeni­cian, Roman, palaeochris­t­ian and Byzan­tine ruins along­side indige­nous mon­u­ments such as the Kbor er Roumia, the great roy­al mau­soleum of Mau­re­ta­nia.