What are the climate change implications? Surely this was a habitable place with water and vegetation several millenniums ago if it was a major trade center.
Did the Egyptians drive SUV chariots?
The Sahara took a while to dry out. Years ago, National Geographic visited the geographic center (figures) of the desert, way west of this Yam thing, and took (and published) a photo of *an olive tree* that was still living there, and probably thousands of years old. :’)
No, they walked ... like Egyptians [did]