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Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
Kerma was the capital city of the Kerma culture, which was founded in present-day Sudan before 3500 BC. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Kerma is one of the largest archaeological sites in ancient Nubia . It has produced decades of extensive excavations and research, including thousands of graves and tombs and the residential quarters of the main city surrounding ...
Nubia (/ ˈ nj uː b i ə /, Nobiin: Nobīn, [2] Arabic: النُوبَة, romanized: an-Nūba) is a region along the Nile river encompassing the confluence of the Blue and White Niles (in Khartoum in central Sudan), and the area between the first cataract of the Nile (south of Aswan in southern Egypt) or more strictly, Al Dabbah.
A Nubian woman circa 1900 Modern Nubians speak Nubian languages , Eastern Sudanic languages that is part of the Nilo-Saharan family . The Old Nubian language is attested from the 8th century AD, and is the oldest recorded language of Africa outside of the Afroasiatic family.
Nuri is a place in modern Sudan on the west side of the Nile, near the Fourth Cataract.Nuri is situated about 15 km north of Sanam, and 10 km from Jebel Barkal.. Nuri is the second of three Napatan burial sites and the construction of pyramids at Nuri began when there was no longer enough space at El-Kurru. [1]
On the East side of the city, a funerary temple and chapel were laid out. It supported a population of 10,000 at its height in 1700 BCE. One of its most enduring structures was the deffufa, a mud-brick temple where ceremonies were performed on top. [4] The deffufa is a unique structure in Nubian architecture.
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A map of East Africa showing some of the historically active volcanoes (as red triangles) and the Afar Triangle (shaded at the center), which is a so-called triple junction (or triple point) where three plates are pulling away from one another: the Arabian plate and two parts of the African plate—the Nubian and Somali—splitting along the East African Rift Zone Main rift faults, plates ...