Old Camel Market
Dusty livestock trading ground where Bedouin traders haggle over hundreds of dromedaries.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Old Camel Market in Riyadh starts with a simple game: pick a camel by colour alone, the way Bedouin traders have done for generations. It follows a 2018 study led by Faisal Almathen of King Faisal University, which sampled dromedaries from across Arabia to ask what separates the dark Majaheem from the pale Wodh, and what the plain sandy-brown camels have to do with it. Best heard while walking the lanes between the pens, with the herd in front of you.
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