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Darb El Arba'īn

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via the Sinnar-Shendi route, etc. A research team that visited Selima between 2011 and 2014 noted "how traces of the Darb El Arba'īn are still discernable, especially north of the oasis. Not only do bones and graves mark the road, but the tracks themselves are clearly visible." Wall carvings on an
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The use of the route for the transportation of slaves dates to ancient times and was reaffirmed by the Islamic conquest of North Africa. As early as the 8th century the Coptic writer Abu al-Bishr Severus reported that Muslims were kidnapping Nubians and selling them in Egypt. Three major caravans
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regions of "Nubia." A handful of European observers documented the route in the 18th century and estimated that between 3,000 and 12,000 slaves were trafficked along the route annually. The Sudanese slave trade was abolished and blockaded in the last decade of the 19th century by the
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mentioned the route in his writings, and the Romans established a chain of defenses to protect the route, such that "Darb El Arba'īn was the most favorable route for the long-running caravans from the 2nd century BC to the 4th century AD." Medieval traveler
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of less than 5 mm a year "and a frequency of 30 to 40 years between significant rainfall events, it is very likely the driest region on earth." The route is laid out so that water is always available within a two or three
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is approximately 1,800 km (1,100 mi) and usually took closer to 60 days due to the need to rest and water the herd. Traveling by the desert route was more direct, less expensive and safer than the Nile route.
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Permanent settlements were rarely established around the oases of northern Sudan; the watering places were "only sporadically" used as military outposts.
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The caravans, sometimes thousands of camels strong, then passed through the desert by one of two possible routes, heading to
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markets in Egypt; cars and trucks on asphalt roads are used in addition to camels and donkeys traveling over sand and rock.
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noted that wildlife-rich Wadi Howar was "much used by natives as a road from North West Darfur to Bir Natrun and
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Southern terminus "Cobbe" is in the center of the mountains in the pink zone; the mapmaker notes that
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was the first Englishman to ride with the camel caravan and document his observations. The Frenchman
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Map of Bir Natrun, a stop on the trade route that was known as a valuable source of rock salt (1925)
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Middle Wadi Howar riverbed is visible on the left, in the center of Northern Darfur state (1976)
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were added as pack animals in North Africa sometime between 500 BC and the year zero of the
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Water, Culture and Identity: Comparing Past and Present Traditions in the Nile Basin Region
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trade route in this part of Africa; a number of other transportation routes in the eastern
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and "no single waterless stage of the route exceeds 280 km." Darb Al Arba'īn was the main
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Selima was a fork point where some southbound caravans turned southeast toward the
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Solieman, Nashwa M.S.; Hafez, Marwa Farouk; Khattab, Ahmed Mohamed (June 2019).
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Northbound caravans hit an easier stretch with better water supplies between
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went east–west, connecting the Nile settlements to the great oases of the
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Journal of Association of Arab Universities for Tourism and Hospitality
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Modern archeologists studying the route have found watering stations,
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Proceedings of the Geological Survey of Egypt Centennial Conference
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and the Roman era, and the bleached bones of camels and donkeys.
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The route is still extant, now used to drive camel herds to the
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or Wahat Salima, the last of the oases before what is now the
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Illustration of 19th-century human trafficking in Sudan (1913)
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wrote about the Forty Days Road in the 10th century. In 1793,
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Jesse, Friederike; Gradel, Coralie; Derrien, Franck (2015).
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Haynes, C. Vance; Stafford, T. W.; Maxwell, Ted A. (1998).
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Soghayroun, Intisar Soghayroun Elzein (1 February 2019).
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has "good water" contra nearby Mour's "bad water" (1818)
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A Voyage to Ethiopia in the Years 1698, 1699 and 1700
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Desert Road Archaeology in Ancient Egypt and Beyond
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telegraph stamp
camel caravan

Arabic
Trans-Saharan trade routes
slaves
oases
Africa
Nile River
North Darfur
Sudan
Asyut Governorate
Egypt
Yellow Nile
riverbed
limestone plateau of Middle Egypt
precipitation
day's journey
Sahara
Western Desert
camel meat
cairns
Arabic
sherds
petroglyphs
New Kingdom

Viceroy of Kush
Amenhotep called Huy

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