Nubian Desert

At the El Multaga site in the Nubian Desert, we met displaced farmers whose new plots were covered by sand, and whose harvests were so poor that they could not sell them on the market.

Peter Bosshard: German Company Faces Criminal Complaint Over Abuses in Sudan Dam 2010

The car-sized asteroid that exploded above the Nubian Desert last October was small compared to the dinosaur-killing, civilization-ending objects that still orbit the sun.

Asteroid Impact Helps Trace Meteorite Origins | Impact Lab 2009

Last December, Jenniskens and Sudan astronomer Muawia Shaddad went to the crash site and recovered 300 fragments in the Nubian Desert.

Understanding 2008 TC3 a Year After Impact | Universe Today 2009

Jenniskens and Shaddad plan to revisit the scene of the crash in the Nubian Desert.

Understanding 2008 TC3 a Year After Impact | Universe Today 2009

Instead of laboring along the nine hundred miles of the curve of the Nile between Wadi Halfa and Berber, and hauling his force past three of the six Cataracts between Egypt and Khartoum, he would lay 400 miles of track, 230 of them cutting across the waterless Nubian Desert to Abu Hamed, just north of Berber.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

Instead of laboring along the nine hundred miles of the curve of the Nile between Wadi Halfa and Berber, and hauling his force past three of the six Cataracts between Egypt and Khartoum, he would lay 400 miles of track, 230 of them cutting across the waterless Nubian Desert to Abu Hamed, just north of Berber.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

Instead of laboring along the nine hundred miles of the curve of the Nile between Wadi Halfa and Berber, and hauling his force past three of the six Cataracts between Egypt and Khartoum, he would lay 400 miles of track, 230 of them cutting across the waterless Nubian Desert to Abu Hamed, just north of Berber.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

Nubian Desert, giving us in a foot note the curious information that “Trafalgar” is an Arabic word, which means the

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

I was struck by its great resemblance to the Nubian Desert, south of

Travels in Arabia 2003

Mapping of standing stones and megalithic structures in the Nubian Desert suggests that the Neolithic nomads who once inhabited the area were not only monitoring the heavens, but recording what they saw in monumental form.

Neolithic Skywatchers 1998