The history of Morocco grew rich by the influences of several civilizations and cultures. The plurality of these civilizations resulted in a significant archaeological diversification which was translated throughout the Moroccan territory into monuments, buildings and vestiges. This history began with the establishment of foreign centers in the littoral zones. In the 7th century BC, Phoenicians founded trading posts on the Mediterranean Coast of North Africa, Tangier… as well as on the Atlantic coast, Mogador (Essaouira), Sala, Lixus …

Phoenicians, then Carthaginians created marginal centers along the Moroccan coast and their civilization was attached to the Mediterranean world from which it was born.


Thanks to excavations, we managed to find the remains of walls, some ceramics and burials but no building is identifiable.

At the III century BC and after the defeat of Carthage, the Roman Empire entirely controlled the African Northern region and settled in already existing cities at the pre-roman era like Lixus or Volubilis, the capital of the Moor Empire under the reign of Juba I, Juba II and Ptolemee.

With the advent of the Islamic civilization, the reigning dynasties succeeded one another. In this way the number of historic buildings multiplied to recall the remaining Moroccan history until our days.