Tin Hinan ("she of the tents") was the **4th-5th c. CE matriarch and ancestress of the Tuareg people of the Sahara**. According to Tuareg tradition, she migrated from the Tafilalt oasis in southern Morocco to the Ahaggar Mountains in Algeria. **Her grand monumental tomb at Abalessa, excavated in 1925, contained the skeleton of a tall woman buried with great wealth**, gold, and inscribed bracelets in the ancient Tifinagh script.
**The mother-founder of the Tuareg, the "Blue Men of the Sahara."**
Tin Hinan reduces to five — the number of Tuareg foundress.