The Trans-Saharan Trade Route from North Africa to West Africa was actually made up of a number of routes, creating a criss-cross of trading links across the vast expanse of desert. These trade ...

This Mauritanian city, once a stop along the trans-Saharan trade route, boasts 13 libraries and some 6,000 manuscripts. Their teachings range from Islamic law to poetry to mathematics. Preserving ...

Centuries ago caravans with thousands of camels used to travel along this important trans-Saharan trade route, but new national borders and the advent of the truck have left it defunct.

This strongly suggests that trans-Saharan trade began hundreds of years earlier than previously thought. Caravans of thousands of camels laden with packages once crossed the desert, bringing gold ...