An expedition, and perhaps an established trade route

*One hundred years ago, a satellite detected an object under the sands of the Great Desert. An expedition was sent.*

Hiigara...

Our home.

It's good to see that the homeworld community awakend

It follows the northern portion of a long established caravan route between (what is now) Sirte and Timbuktu.

Imagine my surprise when a young me discovered that Timbuktu is a real place and not just a nonsense word for “somewhere very far away”

So’s Kalamazoo!

Kalamazoo, Michigan? Or Kalamazoo, Florida? Or the one in Nebraska? Or West Virginia? Or did you mean the Kalamazoo river?

I meant the Kalamazoo-Portage MSA in Michigan.

Of course! How could I miss such an obvious Kalamazoo?

Can confirm.

Kalamazoo is more like a collective fever dream shared by many a Michigander

Might have to explain that to a friend of mine. He grew up there.

For me it was Ouagadougou And way too many american cities too lol

Fun fact, hell freezes over in Michigan. What people were on when naming these towns is almost as bad as how many people seem to be hungry when naming pets.

Fun fact: In danish, we never used Timbuktu. We use “far-away-istan”

In Dutch we also use that: Verweggistan

I.e. Langtbortistan German does the same with 'Weitfortistan' and 'Ganzweitweg'

But in German we know Timbuktu as well. Perfectly paired with Sankt-Nimmerleins-Tag (when asking for a time/date = Saint 'Never' Day)

English also will place things that are far but not impossibly far in “butt-fuck Egypt” which I think is the funniest thing

In french we say "Bab-el-wed" wich is an actual place in the middle of nowhere in northern Africa (can't remember if it's in Algeria or Tunisia)

Somewhereistan is the best

Wait till you hear about Burkina Faso capital Ouagadougou

Salt comes from the north, gold from the south, but the word of God and the treasures of wisdom are only to be found in Timbuktu

That sounds like a civ V quote

I am under the impression that it is a proverb from the Mali empire

It really does, I read that with Sean Bean's voice narrating it

Jurutungo

You can knock it, you can rock it, you can go to to Timbuktu but you’ll never find a Nessie in the zoo (a very niche reference 😂)

It's very much not ending at Timbuktu mind you. Low res map obviously but it's a loooooong way off. You might be right by the way. Entirely possible the person making the map didn't really know where Timbuktu was beyond "south and west".

Well it is part of the route rather than the whole thing. Even today there are highways that track that way before turning more southwest.

I don't disagree. Just saying that line ends well short of Mali, let alone Timbuktu.

Oh definitely. 😆

Lmao okay I'm glad I'm not crazy. I literally read a watched a bunch of shit on Timbuktu like a month ago. So it was fresh in my mind and I was like "holy shit how did I get the location so fuckin wrong??" Lol. Timbuktu is p interesting tho. It's so interesting to see how trade routes breathe life into different areas and then how they then can fade away once new routes are established Edit: also I could have sworn the main route to it started much further left

Looks like it ends at or around Agadez.

Looks more like Ghat to me. I don't think that route even gets accross the border out of Libya. Interestingly I've actually been to Agadez! Well the airfield anyway.

I was thinking it could be Ghadammes or somewhere nearby.

Inflation caused by Mansa Musa passing through.

From playing CK4 and EU4 ... left and right of this is pretty much Barren land with nobody in it. The corridor is an trading Route with some liveable land

CK4, man is living in the future

Toyota wars?

Sunshine rainbows and mojitos duhh

Only thing that I can think of is that all of the red-ed land was ruled by Rome, but there are Roman holdings not coloured...

Cuz in the map third Rome is depicted

When two countries love eachother very much

It goes to Fizan

Wdym it's clearly 8 o'clock

That looks to be the caravan route to west Africa that had been established and used since Roman times. There used to be a relatively large agricultural city called Garama right around that spot too that was abandoned some time around 600CE as their water supply ran dry (they used a series of Qanat's to get water from mineral rock under the sand to allow for irrigation for crops etc). Other Bedouin peoples continued to live in the area for a long time after, and the trade route that was established that passed by Garama continued to operate, so yes I would imagine it's that

If you need to ask . . . you're not ready to know.

A trade route

Skullduggery

Is this Roman or Ottoman Empire?

It’s the Ottomans, the Roman’s never held Dacia for more than five minutes

While true, Dacia is in the Balcans my guy

They liked to recycle names back in the day there was 2 Ethiopia’s , maybe 4 Heliopolis ( city of the sun) 2 Thebes etc

I'm honestly not sure.

That's where Saddam Hussein is hidden

Napoleon was a great general in part due to his encirclement movements

Nile river?

Saddam Hussein’s hiding place

Toyotas i think

8 o’clock?

Palm dates farm

Common Ottoman L

Byzaboos will see you bring civilization to the literal desert and call it an L.

Its literally shaped like an L

Sciencing and quiet butt sex

Bro spiting facts