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The pirates of the ancient Mediterranean were not, for the most part, the outsiders who knew no country's allegiance and were the enemies of civilization as they are frequently depicted in novels and other media. They were often employed...

Mosaic with a huge portrait head of Oceanus, surrounded by four nereids and three lines of Latin verse. From Ain Temouchent near Sétif, late 4th or early 5th century CE. Musée national des Antiquités, Algiers, Algeria.

An 1881 oil on canvas landscape, The Garden of Essai, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) the French impressionist painter. Painted in Algiers. (Private Collection)