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Nubian Desert

American  

noun

  1. an arid region in the NE Sudan.


Nubian Desert British  

noun

  1. a desert in the NE Sudan, between the Nile valley and the Red Sea: mainly a sandstone plateau

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In Telassar, a thriving city hidden below the Nubian Desert, Hopkins’s protagonist, the biracial Harvard Medical student Reuel Briggs, encounters an advanced civilization with “specimens of the highest attainments the world knew in ancient days.”

From New York Times Mar. 7, 2023

For a decade, the Louvre sponsored archaeological excavations in the Nubian Desert of Sudan, and the mission resumes in 2022 at El-Hassa, not far from the pyramids of Meroë.

From Washington Post Jul. 1, 2022

It blew up over the Nubian Desert, in Sudan, and no one was injured.

From Economist Jun. 27, 2013

So Jenniskens traveled to the Nubian Desert to recover fragments, as did dozens of searchers from the University of Khartoum.

From Scientific American Dec. 20, 2012

From Abu Hamed their road lay across the great Nubian Desert.

From The Four Feathers by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

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