[2][3]Located around 50 km (31 mi) away from Tangier, Morocco (ancient Tingis), it is possible that the Mzoura burial site is the same one that Roman general Quintus Sertorius had been shown by locals, during a visit to the Kingdom of Mauretania in 82 BCE.

Sertorius, according to a legend narrated by Greek-Roman biographer Lucius Plutarch, excavated the tomb and found the body of the giant Antaeus, son of Gaia and Uranus, buried there.

In 1831, it drew the attention of the British adventurer Arthur de Capell Brooke who mentioned it in his book Sketches in Spain and Morocco with an illustration.

In 1875, French geologist and biologist Gustave-Marie Bleicher [fr] gave the first complete description of the tumulus of Mzoura, and in 1932, Franciscan priest Henry Koehler described the monoliths around it.

The conclusion drawn by Camps and others is that Mzoura cromlech and similar monuments are the vestiges of the emergence process of a powerful confederation or kingdom northwest of Morocco.