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  2. Lappet-faced vulture - Wikipedia

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    The lappet-faced vulture or Nubian vulture (Torgos tracheliotos) is an Old World vulture belonging to the bird order Accipitriformes, which also includes eagles, kites, buzzards and hawks. It is the only member of the genus Torgos .

  3. A-Group culture - Wikipedia

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    Further, the Nubian A-Group plotted nearer to the Egyptians, and the Lachish sample placed more closely to Naqada than Badari. According to Godde, the spatial-temporal model applied to the pattern of biological distances explains the more distant relationship of Badari to Lachish than Naqada to Lachish, as gene flow will cause populations to ...

  4. Nubians - Wikipedia

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    This was the case for both Egyptians and Nubians. Egyptian and Nubian deities alike were worshipped in Nubia for 2,500 years, even while Nubia was under the control of the New Kingdom of Egypt. [65] Nubian kings and queens were buried near Gebel Barkal, in pyramids as the Egyptian pharaohs were.

  5. Nubian architecture - Wikipedia

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    Jebel Barkal. The earliest Nubian architecture used perishable materials, wattle and daub, mudbricks, animal hide, and other light and supple materials.Early Nubian architecture consisted of speos, structures derived from the carving of rock, an innovation of the A-Group culture (c. 3800-3100 BCE), as seen in the Sofala Cave rock-cut temple or the rock cut barial chambers of the Kushite ...

  6. C-Group culture - Wikipedia

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    The Nubian's tumuli were a shallow round grave and included animal bones. Pan-Grave tumuli were constructed with large black stones and small white stones in an alternating pattern. The C-group culture was pastoral, with cattle being an essential part of their daily activities, funerary practices, and religion.

  7. Torgos tracheliotos negevensis - Wikipedia

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    Torgos tracheliotos negevensis, the Arabian lappet-faced vulture or Arabian vulture, [1] is an endangered bird endemic to the western and southern reaches of the Arabian Peninsula. It is a giant subspecies of the more widespread lappet-faced vulture .

  8. Wildlife of Jordan - Wikipedia

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    Some of them are globally threatened, and these include the white-headed duck, Atlantic petrel, northern bald ibis, Egyptian vulture, Griffon vulture, lappet-faced vulture, Pharaoh eagle-owl, barn owl, golden eagle, steppe eagle, greater spotted eagle, eastern imperial eagle, MacQueen's bustard, Siberian crane, sociable lapwing, saker falcon ...

  9. Nubiology - Wikipedia

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    The Sangoan's used core-axes as opposed to hand-axes, they had three horizons from 220 to 150 ka ago, the younger hosrizons showed artefacts that were related to the Lupemban Nubian Complex assemblages with examples of red and yellow ochre that may have shown evidence of extra utilitarian activities. There was a constant movement of Nubian ...