Stories From Behind The Art

Before the horse, before the camel, there was this animal. Around 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, as the Sahara expanded and ancient peoples scrambled to survive, they domesticated the African Wild Ass — and the world changed. Their bones have been found entombed with pharaohs at Abydos, Egypt, bearing the skeletal wear of animals that carried heavy loads across desert distances. They moved the turquoise that adorned queens. They hauled the grain that fed cities. They were, as one