Saadian Tombs & the Imperial History of Marrakech

The Saadian Tombs (the royal necropolis of the Saadian dynasty (1549-1659), the most important dynasty in Moroccan history, who made Marrakech the capital of a Moroccan empire that stretched from sub-Saharan Africa to the Mediterranean): the tombs were sealed by the Alaouite Sultan Moulay Ismail (who despised the Saadians) in the 17th century and rediscovered in 1917 from aerial photography by the French — the best-preserved Saadian monuments in Morocco.