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Updated: May 11, 2025

But four or five years ago, the sources from which the Romans obtained some of their most precious varieties of this material have been rediscovered in the range of mountains called Djebel Orousse, north-east of Oran in Algeria. All over an extensive rocky plateau in this place numerous shallow depressions plainly indicate the existence of very ancient quarries.

Hugh Macmillan - Roman Mosaics: Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood