Madghacen
Madghacen, also spelled Medracen or Medghassen or Medrassen or Madghis, is a royal mausoleum-temple of the Berber Numidian Kings which stands near Batna city in Aurasius Mons in Numidia, Algeria.
Though independent, the Numidian kingdom was increasingly involved in Mediterranean power politics, and an architect familiar with classical architecture has surrounded the vertical section of wall at the base with engaged columns in the Doric order, "heavily proportioned and with smooth shafts, beneath a cavetto cornice". The whole exterior was, and very largely still is, covered with a stone facing, the straight cone of the upper part formed into steps, like the Pyramids of Egypt.
History
Madghis was a king of the independent kingdom of Numidia, between 300 and 200 BC. Numidia bordered Ptolemaic Egypt and was involved in the Second [Punic War], switching sides from the Carthaginians to Rome.Near the time of neighbor King Masinissa and their earliest Roman contacts. Ibn Khaldun said: Madghis is an ancestor of the Berbers of the branch Botr Zenata, Banu Ifran, Maghrawa, Marinid, Ziyyanid, and Wattasid.