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The Trans-Saharan Trade Before the Camels: Garamantes and the Forgotten Routes
Long before the camel caravans and the rise of Ghana and Mali, the Sahara was crossed by a mysterious people: the Garamantes. This episode dives into their desert civilization, centered in the Fezzan region of modern-day Libya, from roughly 500 BCE to 700 CE. Lucas and Luna explore how the Garamantes built an extensive network of underground irrigation canals called foggaras, enabling agriculture and settled life in one of the harshest environments on earth. They traded with Carthage, Rome, and sub-Saharan Africa, moving commodities like salt, copper, glass beads, and probably slaves. Lucas…
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