Corridor Egypt

West of the Nile in Upper Egypt, dry plateau and gravel plains stretch toward the Kharga Oasis. The Darb al-Arba'in, or Forty Days' Road, crossed this desert between Darfur and the Nile Valley. Its wells and oases provided stopping places for caravans carrying ivory, livestock and enslaved people northward. The route revived in the seventeenth century as the rulers of Darfur established trading connections with Egypt.