A type of a seahorse, representing Phoenician iconography, with rider encountered on a clay jar was found at Tamuda.

Around 42 AD, Roman garrisons leveled Tamuda during an insurrection and in its stead erected a fortified settlement.

Tamuda became later one of the major cities of the Roman province Mauretania Tingitana and enjoyed a development during Trajan and Septimius Severus rule.

By the time the Vandals arrived in the fifth century the city had been possibly abandoned as no contemporary chronicle mentions it anymore.

[7] In 1933, a third century (circa 253-257 A.D.) stone recording a Roman victory over some unnamed barbarians was discovered at the site of Tamuda.