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Bookmark or Share- Temple of Zeus Uncovered in Egyptian SinaiAs announced by Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, archaeologists have uncovered the ruins of an ancient temple of Zeus Kasios at the site of Tell el-Farma in the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula. The discovery sheds further light on the religious multiculturalism that thrived in Egypt during antiquity. Zeus Kasios was an amalgamation of ...
- Wilderness Wanderings: Where is Kadesh? - Biblical Archaeology SocietyKADESH IN THE BIBLE. In the Hebrew Bible, a place called Kadesh—also known as Kadesh-Barnea—was an important stop during the Israelites’ wilderness wanderings. Where is Kadesh? The site of Tell el-Qudeirat in the northeastern part of the Sinai Peninsula is considered to be the best candidate.
- Video: Which Way Out of Egypt? Physical Geography Constraints on the ...Moses and the children went through the Sinai Peninsula and crossed at a land bridge in Nuewiba over into Midia or what is now Saudi Arabia. The land bridge was built by sediments washing from the periodic rain fall over the centuries prior to the exodus.
- Copper and the History of the Alphabet in Ancient EgyptThis nearly 4,000-year-old mining site and administrative center in southern Sinai may shed new light on the history of the alphabet. Credit: Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities announced that an archaeological excavation at the site of Wadi al-Nasb in southern Sinai uncovered a 4,000-year-old ...
- Early Alphabetic Writing Found at LachishThe early alphabetic inscription, dated to the mid-15th century B.C.E., was preserved on a tiny sherd of painted Late Bronze Age pottery imported from Cyprus. Image credit: Austrian Archaeological Institute/Austrian Academy of Sciences. An inscription from Tel Lachish, discovered in 2018 and published in 2021, is the earliest alphabetic writing ...
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