8: Tin Hinan and The Hoggar Mountains
This mountain plataeu in the central Sahara desert has it all. Incredible landscapes, politically charged climate in the remote regions of southern Algeria, and an ancient, somewhat mysterious tomb of a Tuareg queen. Granted, the tomb has long since been explored and the remains of the woman, Tin Hinan, analyzed, but who exactly she was, and how this Roman style grave site came to be in the middle of the Sahara desert hasn’t been unambiguously been resolved by historians yet.
Also, as with all the central Saharan mountain massifs, the Hoggar is almost like an island of rocks and mountains in a sea of dunes. There can be a number of mysteries hidden here, especially since people have been here for a very long time, as various rock paintings prove.