We never planned to live like that, later, as it happened, we became refugees and ended up internally displaced in what would have otherwise seemed l… - Sada Mire

Yes, but we didn't have a chance to study them erly. We just recorded them and secured them. I don't excavate because there's not even a museum in Somaliland where these objects could be stored and properly studied.

The most dangerous thing in the desert is bad roads, and snakes are often found near monuments. I had a few unpleasant experiences with them. For example, in Dhambalin, I lay on my stomach to take pictures of the lower part of a panel with paintings. Suddenly I heard a hiss. There was a snake under a large rock next to my head. Terrified, I slowly started to move away on my stomach, and the equally scared snake disappeared between the rocks. Another time I almost peed on a rattlesnake well hidden in the sand. Since then, I have not gone out to the bush or the desert in the dark to urinate.

It's hard being an only child when you need all the help you can get. I'm constantly aware that I need to be in many places at once. Of course, when I started studying archaeology, I had no idea that I would be like that.