Sunday, April 21, 2024

Season 5 Episode 3: Trans-Saharan Trade in the Garamantian Age


A piece of Roman jewelry embedded with carbuncle, one of the key goods traded in Germa.

Horses, carbuncles, gold, salt, and more. What do all these things have in common? They were first traded across the Sahara by the Garamantes. Today's episode discusses the earliest rise of Garamantian trans-Saharan trade, the first documented example of trade across the vast desert.

1 comment:

  1. Are you going to upload this episode to Patreon? It is up on the free feed but not the ad-free one. Thanks, Andy!

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