African Architecture
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Meroe pyramids
About the same time as people were building Carthage (500-200 BC or so), there were also people south of Egypt, in the kingdom of Meroe (modern Sudan), building smaller pyramids.
The amphitheater of El Djem, in southern Tunisia (150 AD)
In 146 BC, the Carthaginians were conquered by the Romans. For a while nothing much was built, but by about 100 AD, people began to build great Roman-style stone buildings and houses all over North Africa.
A Roman triumphal arch at Lepcis Magna (Libya)
When the Romans were in turn conquered by the Vandals in the 400's AD, the Vandals built some of the earliest Christian churches in Africa.
Mosque at Kairouan, 800 AD
And after the Islamic invasions of the 700's AD, there were many mosques and forts built in North Africa as well, like the Great Mosque at Kairouan.
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