撒哈拉地区的岩画显示，人们曾利用马匹和马车来横穿沙漠；并且，在公元前300年至公元前200年间，有一些可以穿越撒哈拉地区的贸易路线。
Rock paintings in the Sahara indicate that horses and chariots were used to traverse the desert and that by 300-200 B.C., there were trade routes across the Sahara.
“对于穿越撒哈拉沙漠的黄金商队来说，这里是终点站”，他表示。
"It was a terminus for the gold caravans crossing the Sahara," he said.
描述：每年都有成千上万的非洲人穿越撒哈拉沙漠，进行长途跋涉，梦想到欧洲去淘金。
Caption: Every year many thousands of migrants make the gruelling journey through the Sahara desert as they try to reach Europe.
夏天时，当气温高于60华氏时，我们被硬性要求整天地携带着一瓶水，就像是我们将要徒步穿越撒哈拉一样。
In the summer, when the temperature rises much above 60f, we are importuned to carry a bottle of water at all times as though we are about to trek across the Sahara.
有些候鸟一口气横穿撒哈拉沙漠和地中海，而有些则在穿越前在北非稍作休整。
Some birds traverse the Sahara and the Mediterranean Sea in a one go, while others make a pit-stop in northern Africa before crossing.
此外巴西上层热带雨林被认为从穿越了大西洋的撒哈拉沙尘获得了大部分养分供应。
In addition, the upper layers of the rainforest in Brazil are thought to derive much of their nutrient supply from dust transported across the Atlantic from the Sahara.
学者们一直认为，早期人类从下撒哈拉的非洲进入欧亚大陆，迁徙路线要么是沿尼罗河并穿越西奈半岛，要么是越过红海。
Scholars have long assumed that early humans expanded beyond sub-Saharan Africa into Eurasia by migrating either along the Nile River and across the Sinai or across the Red Sea.
学者们一直认为，早期人类从下撒哈拉的非洲进入欧亚大陆，迁徙路线要么是沿尼罗河并穿越西奈半岛，要么是越过红海。
Scholars have long assumed that early humans expanded beyond sub-Saharan Africa into Eurasia by migrating either along the Nile River and across the Sinai or across the Red Sea.
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