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The average annual rainfall in the Nubian Desert is less than 5 inches (130 mm). [1] The native inhabitants of the area are the Nubians. The River Nile goes through most of its cataracts while traveling through the Nubian Desert, before the Great Bend of the Nile. The Nubian Desert affected the civilization of ancient Egypt in many ways.
Nabta Playa was once a large endorheic basin in the Nubian Desert, located approximately 800 kilometers south of modern-day Cairo [1] or about 100 kilometers west of Abu Simbel in southern Egypt, [2] 22.51° north, 30.73° east. [3] Today the region is characterized by numerous archaeological sites. [2]
Deserts of Egypt, barren areas of landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Deserts of Egypt .
The ANS in the north is exposed as part of the Sahara Desert and Arabian Desert, and in the south in the Ethiopian Highlands, Asir province of Arabia and Yemen Highlands. The ANS was the site of some of man's earliest geologic efforts, principally by the ancient Egyptians to extract gold from the rocks of Egypt and NE Sudan. This was the most ...
In Ancient Egypt, the oasis had two names.The name 'ḏsḏs' is first mentioned on a scarab dating back to the Middle Kingdom.In the New Kingdom, this name is rarely found, although it does appear for example in the Temple of Luxor and in the account of King Kamose, who occupied the oasis during the war against the Hyksos.
Because the Sinai Peninsula was the main region where mining of turquoise was carried out in Ancient Egypt, it was called Biau (the "Mining Country") [3] and Khetiu Mafkat ("Ladders of Turquoise") [5] [6] by the ancient Egyptians. The origin of the modern name is a source of contention (see Biblical Mount Sinai for a fuller discussion).
The Center received the first prize for innovative use of technology, in the Stockholm Challenge in 2004, for its work called The Archeological Map of Egypt. [4] All archaeological sites within Sharqia Governorate areas are accurately defined on small scale maps, providing a detailed and precise database.
The ancient language hilly land hieroglyph has three major uses: 1 – hill country, or hills 2 – a reference to arid, desert land 3 – Determinative, for foreign lands. The language meaning of the hieroglyph is as an ideogram or a determinative in the word khast (khaset), and is often translated as hilly land, desert, foreign land, or ...