Today, the Sahara is decidedly arid ... Traders, often with camel caravans in tow, braved the harsh desert terrain to move goods across vast expanses, binding disparate cultures together.
He grew up in an Aïr village, making the annual camel caravan with his father ... and drug smuggling in the Sahara, they needed to enlist the Tuareg. "The desert has no secrets from the Tuareg ...
To kid-me, being an archaeologist meant emerging from the whorls of a sandstorm with a scarf wrapped around my face as I rode a camel through the golden-orange dunes of the Sahara Desert ...