VOLUBILIS, MEKNES: DID YOU KNOW MOROCCO ONCE HAD THE MOST REMOTE ROMAN CITY IN THE WORLD? 

Volubilis my home city

Agree

currently we use blue basalt in the construction of railways, a quarry is in Meknes on the road to Fez

Hello Kevin you're here too 😂❤️

Go north

Thanks for your concern, Oscar is 💯 % back up and running now. 😊

Thank you for having us 😊 We are returning very soon to keep exploring.

Thanks @MrHox it truly is full of surprises!

A great idea! And one we didn’t know either. Thank you for that 😊

Lixus ?

Lixus was Phoenician counter, not roman city , historians say Phoenicians found it around 12 centuries BC, even before Carthage, but it seems the village existed before the Phoenicians comes and "founded" the city, still archeologists talk only about 8 century BC!

@@jadhora3794 Thank you for the further information

Lixus Berguata sijl massa all It's Amazigh indignous people who was established their own country741. There is no at all what you think or what you call...don't think wrong!

@@jadhora3794 lixus was a city in ancient Mauretania Tingitana, located in indeed present-day Morocco. The city was founded in the 7th century BC , however not by the Phoenicians but by the Carthaginians. It was an important trading hub for the region. Unlike what is still being presented ancient Carthage and "Phoenicia" are not one and the same. There is actually evidence to suggest that Carthage was predominantly composed of local= North African Berber people. One study published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology in 2017 found that ancient DNA samples from Carthage were genetically similar to modern-day Tunisians and other North African populations, and did not show significant evidence of Levantine or "Phoenician" ancestry. Another study published in the journal PLOS One in 2018 analyzed ancient DNA samples from Carthaginian and "Phoenician" sites across the Mediterranean, including Ibiza and other spots in southern Europe. The study found that while there was some evidence of Levantine(neolithic) ancestry in these samples, there was also evidence of significant North African/Berber ancestry, and that the Levantine ancestry could be also be linked to Jewish populations who were also present in Carthage. So neither Lixus or Carthage was a "Phoenician" city, but rather a diverse (mediterranean) and multicultural (from the western mediterranesn most of the time, see Arish the man of Birsa, strangly named "Phoenician" while his genetic lineage placed him in Iberia) city with significant North African /Berber influence in the basis with cultural ties to and with other mediterranean, incl the Levant, populations..

Thanks @MehdiB 😎

Thanks so much!

Thanks Keith! Hope you are both well 😊

Lots more coming up very soon as we get back to Asia next week and planning a few months in South Asia this year!

@@AwaywiththeSteiners that's a wonderful plane please come Pakistan again ❤️❤️❤️

Thanks @HilalLazrak he is doing much better now (with just a small scar for the memory!) 🛹 😁

@@AwaywiththeSteiners glad to hear :)

Aww thank you so much @M.Arif! Your comment has absolutely made our day. Thank you for following us and supporting our journey. We hope to continue sharing the positive sides to travel and each of these beautiful countries and cultures that we learn about 😊😍

Thank you for your support. Love all the comments 😊

Thank you 🙏 and Oscar appreciated your message and says he’s doing great now. 😊

@@gavinsteiner3759 alhamdolillah, very happy for you Captain Oscar.

Thanks @Mohammed 😊

Aww thank you! He thinks that is cool to hear 😎

You can get a shared taxi :)

Oh thank you! Interesting 😊

@@AwaywiththeSteiners 💞👍🤗you Are verry well come.

Not sure as yet.