Related Images Gallery

Kabyle Village of Taourirt - Northern Algeria

Kabyle Village of Taourirt - Northern Algeria in the Bouira Province - The Kabyle people are Berbers from North Eastern Algeria - estimated population today of 5 million individuals. Date: circa 1910s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Africa, African, Algeria, Algerian, Berber, Berbers, Bouira, Commune, Community, Historical, History, Kabyle, North, Northern, Province, Taourirt, Village

Tuareg Girl from the Hoggar Mountains, Algeria

Tuareg Girl from the Hoggar Mountains, Algeria. Taken during the expedition led by Captain Angus Buchanan to the Sahel region of the Sahara in 1922-23. A film shot during the expedition, 'Crossing the Great Sahara', records the 3500 mile journey, which began in Kano, in Northern Nigeria early in 1922 and ended in Tougourt, Algeria in April 1923. Buchanan had previously led an expedition into the Sahara in 1919-1920. Date: circa 1922

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

'Apuleius', (c124-170 AD), 1830. Creator: Unknown

'Apuleius', (c124-170 AD), 1830. Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis (c124-170 AD) Latin-language prose writer, philosopher and rhetorician, a Numidian who lived under the Roman Empire. From "Biographical Illustrations", by Alfred Howard. [Thomas Tegg, R. Griffin and Co., J. Cumming, London, Glasgow and Dublin, 1830]

© The Print Collector/Heritage Images