Trade routes stitching places of production to places of commerce have popped up throughout ancient history ... camels would carry goods across the Sahara. Gold, salt, cloth, and enslaved people ...

But the Sahel’s acacia trees, growing close to the boundary of the desert, are at the heart of a reviving ancient trade with the potential to stem the advance of the Sahara. To see what is ...

Ancient Ghana derived ... right on the edge of the Sahara and the city quickly became the most dynamic and important southern terminus of the Saharan trade routes. Kumbi Saleh became the focus ...

There's much more to ancient Africa than Egypt ... who had complex cities, trade routes, riches and cultures. The Mali Empire ruled much of West Africa starting in 1235, when a confederation ...

Ancient copper jewellery and ingots in sub-Saharan Africa have been found to bear the unique signature of copper ore from Morocco. This strongly suggests that trans-Saharan trade began hundreds of ...