Search Results: Caravan

A modern camel caravan in Morocco.

A trans-Saharan camel caravan carrying salt. Agadez to Bilma, Niger.

A photograph of the interior of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery's (1887-1976) command caravan, which was mounted on a truck and used on various campaigns during the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

A larger-than-life sandstone relief of a camel caravan, carved into the rock of the Siq in Petra (Jordan), early 1st century BCE. It depicts four camels with their guide entering Petra.

The camel caravans which crossed the great dunes of the Sahara desert began in antiquity but reached their golden period from the 9th century CE onwards. In their heyday caravans consisted of thousands of camels travelling from North Africa...

Cyrus the Great (558-530 BCE) built the first universal empire, stretching from Greece to the Indus River. This was the famous Achaemenid Empire of Persia. An inscription at Naqsh-i-Rustam, the tomb of his able successor Darius I (521-486...

The life of wealthy Romans was filled with exotic luxuries such as cinnamon, myrrh, pepper, or silk acquired through long-distance international trade. Goods from the Far East arrived in Rome through two corridors – the Red Sea and the Persian...

The Description of Africa is the first comprehensive book about Africa, written by Leo Africanus, an African scholar trained in the Islamic intellectual tradition, in 1526, during the Italian Renaissance. A skillful mixture of anthropology...

A map tracing the journeys of Leo Africanus (al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi, c. 1494 – c. 1554), a 16th-century Maghrebi diplomat, traveler, and geographer. His Description of Africa (1550) remains one of the most detailed early...

Mansa Musa I was the ruler of the Mali Empire in West Africa from 1312 to 1337. Controlling territories rich in gold and copper, and monopolising trade between the north and interior of the continent, Mali grew extremely wealthy. Mansa Musa...