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

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

We were intent on exploring the remote — and safe — northern region of the Nubian Desert, clustered with more pyramids than Egypt and nearly unvisited by outsiders.

From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2012

Leaving Cairo on the 15th of April, they sailed up the Nile to Korosko, whence they crossed the Nubian Desert on camels, with the simoon in full force and the heat intense to Berber.

From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by Kingston, William Henry Giles