The ridge of the Mt. of Law - Mt. Sinai region

Armed men on Mt. Sinai.
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Photograph taken from Gebel Abbas Basha, looking east and showing the ruins of Qasr Abbas Basha (palace), the vicinities of Wadi El Arba'ien (Leja) and Wadi Sharig and the low-elevated mountain ridge of Gebel Abu Mahrur in-between and the cone-shape summit of Mount Sinai (Biblical Sinai or Gebel Musa) to the right, El Melga Plain in the forefront, Ras El Sefsafa (Monacha, Biblical Mount Horeb), the vicinity of Wadi El Sebaa'iya and the eastern section of the ring dyke of the High Mountains of Sinai Peninsula in far horizon in the centre from a 16km distance, and the vicinity of Wadi El Dier (Biblical Holy Valley), the mountain range of Gebel 'Arribeh, Gebel El Dier (Selib-Baraka) and Gebel Meraja and the whale-shape mountain of Gebel Umm A'lawi from centre-left to left. (Source: A. Shams, Sinai Peninsula Research, 2018)
Mount Sinai (Biblical Sinai or Gebel Musa) is the traditional mountain of the law, while Ras El Sefsafa (Monacha, Biblical Mount Horeb) is the mountain of Moses's first ascent. Julian Saba, the Syrian monk, was the first to mention Mount Sinai in his account in 363 CE, and Egeria described the monastic life in the vicinity of Wadi El Dier (Biblical Holy Valley) during her pilgrimage from Jerusalem to Mount Sinai in 383 CE. Dier El Bustan (Theotkos/Monastery of Virgin Mary) and Dier El Raba (Monastery of the Holy Apostles: 12 monks of Gitirabbi) were built in El Melga Plain at the site of Byzantine monastic settlements (4th-7th century CE). Abbas Helmi I, the Khedive of Egypt (1849-54), visited Sinai Peninsula in 1853-54 CE and paved several paths in the vicinity of Mount Sinai and along the pilgrimage routes in the peninsula. The pasha's workers encamped in Wadi El Dier in dwellings clustered around a central mosque and paved a path to the pasha's under construction palace on the summit Gebel Tala'a (unfinished). The Gebaliya tribe traditionally followed a seasonal migration cycle until 1980s CE, herding on pastures at different altitudes, where the Bedouins spent late Autumn and Winter at El Melga Plain. (Source: A. Shams, Sinai Peninsula Research, 2018)
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