Post #4198314
2026-07-21 14:26 UTC
Fun fact: camels weren’t imported to the Middle East from SE Asia until the mid-19th century. Germany had a professional camel-driven caravan service before Egypt.
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@cannedtuna@lemmy.world 2026-07-21 14:33
That is a neat fact Look at me blindly reading comments and taking them at face. The one-humped camel or dromedary (camelus dromedarius) is already sporadically attested in the Early Dynastic Period, but it was not regularly used until much later. Foreign conquerors (Assyrians, Persians, Alexander the Great) brought the camel on a greater scale to Egypt. Certainly in the Ptolemaic Period, and perhaps already under the Persians (525-343 BC), the camel (also the two-humped camel, camelus bactrianus) was used as main transport animal for the desert. www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-static/…/camel.html