Jedars (French spelling: Djeddars) are thirteen Berber mausoleums located south of Tiaret city in Algeria.

The name is derived from the Arabic: جدار jidār (wall), which is used locally to refer to ancient monumental ruins.

[1] The tombs are situated on the tops of two hills in the mountainous Frenda area, around 30 km south of Tiaret.

Some stone was quarried from local limestone and sandstone, some were recycled from nearby settlements and necropoli of earlier times.

[11] Unlike the Jabal Lakhdar monuments, its funerary chambers seem to have been built to hold more than one occupant, so it has been proposed that it is dynastic, with the smaller jedars surrounding it those of lesser nobility or rank.

The earliest known reference to the jedars is in 947, when the Fatimid caliph Ismail al-Mansur was conducting military operations in the Tiaret area.

According to a campaign diary that was copied by several later historians such as Idris Imad al-Din and Ibn Khaldun, the caliph was shown the jedars at Jabal Lakhdar and encountered an inscription "in the Roman language" (presumably in Greek, but also possibly in Latin).

In 1882, Professor La Blanchère from Algiers University published a detailed study on the jedars (mostly based on the previous excavations) and attempted to place them in historical context.

The whereabouts of these skeletons is unknown (they may lie unrecognised in an Algerian museum) and Dr. Roffo, it is said, burnt most of his notes in a fit of pique after an argument with the Director of Antiquities (who had probably got wind of his methods of 'excavation').

The names of the interred individuals and their association remain unknown, but they very likely belonged to a dynasty that used the mausolea not just as a resting place, but also an expression of power.

[16] It has been proposed that they were errected by Zenati-speaking migrants who, originating from the Sahara, overran the Limes Africanus and pushed into the Roman Maghreb in the early 5th century.

Powerful Mauretanian individuals mentioned in written sources who are possibly to be attributed to these kingdoms and the jedars are Masuna (known from an inscription dated to 508 titling himself rex gentium Maurorum et Romanorum, "king of the Mauri and Romans"), Mastigas (fl.