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Nubian Desert
noun
- an arid region in the NE Sudan.
Nubian Desert
noun
- a desert in the NE Sudan, between the Nile valley and the Red Sea: mainly a sandstone plateau
Example Sentences
In May, they fled the escalating violence, some via a perilous, hair-raising 500-mile road trip across the Nubian Desert to Port Sudan.
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.”
New high-resolution images of a meteorite found in the Nubian Desert in 2008 revealed it contains diamonds—possibly from a “lost” planet that orbited the sun during the solar system’s formation, scientists say.
In 2008, pieces of diamond encased in rock descended from space and landed in the Nubian Desert of Sudan.
The magnitude of the undertaking, not limited to their Nubian Desert crossing and other logistical challenges from one end of Africa to the other, was astounding even by 2016 standards.
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