Timna Copper Mines

Another stop within a relatively short distance, on the same day as Solomon's Pillars, the Egyptian Miners' Temple and the Tabernacle. Later it's on to the Dead Sea.

One thing that impressed me about this place is that there is absolutely nothing growing here at all. Not a stick, a leaf or a twig anywhere. It's difficult to imagine, in 5,000 B.C., how the slaves who worked these mines could survive. In fact, it's very likely they knew they would die here, as apparently most of them did.

Here's a link to an article about the area.