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

They next took the Turkish steamer to Judda and thence to Sarachin, the last station before they commenced their long, tiresome and dangerous march across the Nubian Desert.

From Sawdust & Spangles Stories & Secrets of the Circus by Coup, W. C.