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Under the Desert Sun: The Vagaries of the Trans-Saharan trade (1)

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  Image: A camel train across Karum, a salt lake in Ethiopia Courtesy:  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salt_transport_by_a_camel_train_on_Lake_Assale_(Karum)_in_Ethiopia.jpg   I have completed collecting material for the second part of the chapter, 'The Quest for the River of Gold', where I will give an account of the Trans-Saharan Trade at its peak, i.e. before the European expansion in the fifteenth century.  The most critical step, the processing of the material may take a long time. I need to develop a few ideas about the carrying capacity of camels and a range of goods that were transported across the desert.  My Mesopotamian project has taken a new turn as I figured out how to expand the collection of material using Google Books as the link to other databases, such as Academia, Scribd, and ResearchGate. I am hopeful that after processing the data, I will analyze facts in a more nuanced way.  I completed the course "Rome: A Virtual Tour of the...