The Romans were familiar with Africa. At one point, they controlled everything on the north coast of Africa from Morocco to Egypt. 

However, below their African territories was the vast Sahara Desert, which was extremely difficult to cross. For all practical purposes, it served as a permeable barrier between the people above and below the desert. 

As such, historians have wondered just how much the people above and below the Sahara knew about each other. 

Learn more about  Rome and Sub-Saharan Africa, and what contact they had with each other on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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