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Sinai: Pharaohs, Miners, Pilgrims and Soldiers.
Publication Data:
Author(s): Beno Rothenberg
Publisher: Arborist Merchandising Root, Self Service
Pages: Berne: Kümmerly + Frey
Language: de
Category: Art and Photography
Genre: The Sinai Peninsula – the desert of the exodus from Egypt and land of God’s revelation to Moses – is the much fought-over land bridge between Asia and Africa. For thousands of years its turquoise and copper deposits attracted miners and metalworkers from Asia and Africa, who often fought for the valuable ores and minerals. In modern times, the strategic importance of the land bridge, the Suez Canal and the oilfields have, time and time again, turned the romantic landscapes of Sinai into a battlefield – and today the skeletons of modern armoured cars lie beside the ruins an rock drawings of ancient Pharaonic Egypt, of Nabataeans and Romans, and along the old Christian and Moslem pilgrim routes. Sinai, with its three areas that are geographically and geologically totally different. In the south, the Central Plateau breaks off in a steep precipice – and from here there is a magnificent view of the majestic granite mountains of southern Sinai, among them Gebel Musa, the ‘Mount of God’, the traditional place of the revelation to Moses. The middle of the 19th century saw the beginnings of real scientific exploration of the Sinai. It was another 70 years before a large-scale modern archaeological and archaeo-metallurgical exploration of central and southern Sinai could be undertaken by the ‘Arabah Expedition’ of Beno Rothenberg in 1967. The new research project, carried out over more than ten years, resulted in a completely new picture of the history of Sinai. The present volume not only shows the exciting beauty of Sinai – as seen through the eyes of the photographer H. Weyer – geography, geology, flora and fauna – the dramatic historical events and developments that have taken place in the Sinai peninsula. The full story of Sinai, from the Early Stone Age to the last Sinai war in 1973, is here told.
ISBN: 3259083839
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