Mauritania, Mali, Morocco and Algeria

The scroll reads: "In their tales the ancients stated that the mount Atlanet reached the sky with its summit, meaning that Iapeto called Atlas, first ruler of this province, was the son of Noa called Sky…the Phoenicians disturbed the peace of these people, and the Carthaginians...but then it passed under the Roman rule, and after them many foreign people appeared and lastly the Saracens, still ruling it today, except for that part owned by the Portuguese and the Spanish." Photo: Rabatti&Domingie