Reality Check

It's been almost a year since going to Israel, Jordan and Egypt. I've obviously not finished posting everything from that trip here, and much is happening currently. So this blog is now going to cover current events (at least the ones that are in my little corner of the universe) in nearly real-time.

If you discover any errors in my descriptions of the sites in Israel and Egypt, please feel free to leave a comment.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Timna

Solomon's Pillars from the other side

After our stay down at the Red Sea, we went back north. First stop, Timna. There we viewed a small theater presentation on the Egyptian miners and the Jews who lived there in ancient times.

Back on the bus, went into the park area a few miles to the site of Solomon's Pillars. There we disembarked for a hike up to the top of the trail where there is an Egyptian hieroglyph and down the other side where there's an archaeological site of an Egyptian miners' temple.

I found a couple of resources on the web about the area:

http://sakharov.net/travel/timna.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Archaeology/timna.html

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