Josephine Quinn

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In Our Time · The Garamantes · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

So there's a kind of comparative case in Anatolia in the 19th century BCE.

There's an incredible archive of traders who are from Asher, from the capital of Assyria, which is in those days a trading state.

And this archive records in incredible detail the kind of detail we'd love to have for the Garamantes.

what they're actually doing, like amounts of metals, textiles, that kind of thing.

And one thing that's fascinating is that basically people are bringing from Asher to Anatolia tin and textiles, and they're swapping them for silver coming back down.

That's the way that trade works.

But the amount of textiles and the value of the textiles is very similar to that of the tin.

Textiles aren't just a kind of extra you throw a few in on top of the metal cargo.

They are a really hugely important trade good across antiquity.

Well, one thing I'd love to hear from David is that after archaeological work in Libya stopped, he went to work in Morocco and did all this incredible new stuff in this other part of North Africa.

And I'd just love to know, what is the work that you've done in the last 10, 15 years in Morocco?

How has that changed your ideas about the Garamantes, if at all?

One of the things that's so interesting about this kind of thing is that, you know, trade, of course, is a very personal thing in antiquity and especially the exchange of technology.

So if you're talking about cotton coming up from the sub-Saharan zone to the Garamantes in the Sahara or them transmitting copper technology and alloy recipes and so on, that's not just something somebody writes on the back of an envelope and gives with your packet of seeds.

You actually have to learn how to grow and then make cotton.

You have to learn how to manufacture copper in this particular way.

So that must involve people spending a lot of time together, at least for certain periods.

I mean, that's another thing, isn't it?

That we haven't talked about camels.

So camels arrive among the Garamantes.

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