Considered one of the best examples of Roman ruins in North Africa and particularly noted for its Triumphal Arch, which archaeological site in Morocco is situated near to Meknes?
Roman roads in Morocco Roman roads in Morocco Roman roads in Morocco were the western roads of Roman Africa. In 42 AD the western part of the kingdom of Mauretania was reorganized as a province of Rome Mauretania Tingitana. During the reign of emperor Claudius infrastructure was improved. A road leading in the southern direction from Tingis split in two at Ad Mercuri. One of the two followed the Atlantic coast through Iulia Constantia Zilil (Asilah), Lixus (Larache) and Sala Colonia (near Rabat). The other, more to the east, ended in Tocolosida, near Volubilis and modern Fez. There it is the possibility that a
Triumphal arch around. Most Roman triumphal arches were built during the imperial period. By the fourth century AD there were 36 such arches in Rome, of which three have survived - the Arch of Titus (AD 81), the Arch of Septimius Severus (203-205) and the Arch of Constantine (312). Numerous arches were built elsewhere in the Roman Empire. The single arch was the most common, but many triple arches were also built, of which the Triumphal Arch of Orange ("circa" AD 21) is the earliest surviving example. From the 2nd century AD, many examples of the "arcus quadrifrons" – a square triumphal