Nubian Desert

American  

noun

1. an arid region in the NE Sudan.

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Nubian Desert British  

noun

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

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Nubian Desert

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

It is therefore highly probable that the extinct craters now in existence in the Nubian Desert were active at a period when they formed volcanic islands in a sea—similar to Stromboli, &c. &c.

From The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia, and the sword hunters of the Hamran arabs by Sir Samuel White Baker

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