من مصادر التاريخ الموريتاني القديم

Abstract EN

This research aims to identify the types of sources from which ancient Mauritanian history can be derived, while clarifying that each type of them represents a source of many different historical data.

For that, we concluded that the mentioned sources include the archeology of rock art, funerary monuments, urban remains, and ancient monuments, in addition to data on mineral and marine archeology and various archaeological finds transferred from pottery, ostrich eggs, and others.

However, the references from ancient sources, whether Latin or Roman, represent the first written data about the desert area in general, which included Mauritania.