Although scholars still debate the nature and scale of trans-Saharan trade and contacts in antiquity, one cannot help but wonder. Surely, the Garamantes were engaged in contacts with groups both within and south of the Sahara, but what about others? Was Agisymba in the Lake Chad region? If so, what does it suggest about the possible origins of long-distance trade before Kanem in the "Central Sudan" region? Was the Meroitic state also a player here, perhaps trading goods of Mediterranean origin to lands further west?
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