• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    14 hours ago

    It was around this time that a white guy adopted the clothing of an Arab country and passed himself off as an Arab to learn more about a country (Syria, I think?). I learned about him in the intro to an episode of the Fall of Civilizations podcast. Travel was definitely different then.

    I think it was ep 15, about the Nabataeans.

    Edit: the Nabataeans were in modern Jordan.