Interesting from the IMEC lens is that the interlocutors of trade with Sargon’s kingdom were the traders of Magan – today’s modern-day UAE, Oman and possibly the Makran Coast – who supplied copper and diorite to Mesopotamia[7]. There were also merchants from Dilmun – today’s Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar – who traded actively with s

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All of this translates into a markedly low capacity for trade volume along the Middle Corridor—estimated at only about 5% of the Northern Corridor’s capacity—and increased traffic has, at times, extended transit times to as long as 40 days. The Middle Corridor is also significantly more expensive than the Northern Corridor and, especially, tr