The author describes numerous ruins of towns, villages, posts and defensive enclosures - without being able to attribute them to the Romans or the Berbers.

Upstream from the bridge on the Takarzane road, there are still traces of isolated constructions; a square enclosure of about 100 metres on each side, and on both banks of the river, posts intended to protect the low-lying area where the inhabitants of the towns had established their crops.

Gsell, in his Atlas Archéologique, mentions shortly in the valley of the Oued Tadmit, on both banks[3] ruins of more or less large settlements; however, there is no evidence that they are of Roman origin.

Despois[4] a well-informed author on the Djebel Amour, categorically denies the existence of any trace of Roman occupation in the massif.

The town of Tadmit, situated amidst a well-irrigated prairie since at least 1855, was central to the indigenous community of Laghouat's management of the region's water resources.

However, their projects often resulted in tension as water was redirected to new colonization centers, depriving Algerian communities like Tadmit of vital resources.

[15] According to Sylvie Thénault[16] the penitentiary at Tadmit "was at the top of the hierarchy of hardship"; it was also called "the hell of Jebel-Amour", according to the newspaper Le Radical[17]..

Located 50 kilometres south-south-west of Djelfa, it was authorised for private use and marked by a white cross in the centre of the landing zone.