Sentence examples for nubian from inspiring English sources
noun
An inhabitant of ancient Nubia or a person of Nubian descent.
We followed the Nile on her 1,000-mile "s" bend across the Nubian desert, visiting isolated Meroitic pyramids and temples, where we were the only tourists; traversed hundreds of kilometres of wild desert; clambered on the abandoned Nile river cruisers at Atbara.
Sure enough, the actress was already lost in contemplation of her entrance on a golden bier drawn by Nubian slaves.
The Great Sand Sea, the Nubian desert, Lake Turkana, the Bwindi Impenetrable national park, Ethiopia's Omo valley, western Tanzania, the Niassa Reserve in northern Mozambique.
At least 25 people were killed in clashes between an Arab clan and a Nubian one in the southern Egyptian province of Aswan.Mischief-makersRiots broke out across eastern Ukraine, including in Donetsk, when pro-Russian militants occupied administration buildings and demanded a referendum on joining Russia.
He became concerned about the fate of Nubian statues threatened by the construction of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt, and in 1958 was taken on as an adviser by UNESCO, the UN's cultural branch.
He discovered that the dam not only threatened Nubian statues but that some 100,000 Nubian people were being moved from their traditional homes.
In subsequent centuries, Nubia was subjected to successive military expeditions from Egypt in search of slaves or building materials for royal tombs, destroying much of the Egyptian-Nubian culture that had sprung from the initial conquests of the 1st dynasty.
Tectonic movements in the region of the Arabian-Nubian Shield that took place at the end of the Oligocene and the beginning of the Miocene Epoch almost separated Arabia from Africa.
It crashed in the Nubian Desert of Sudan the next day.
Khafre's valley temple, linked to the pyramid by a causeway, was constructed of great monolithic blocks of granite and contained remarkable statues of the king carved from diorite taken from a remote quarry in the Nubian Desert.
The standfirst read: "When one writer joined an online dating site, she was horrified to be called everything from 'ugly black girl' to 'Nubian queen'".
