Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Mount Sinai (Hebrew: הַר סִינַי Har Sīnay; Aramaic: ܛܘܪܐ ܕܣܝܢܝ Ṭūrāʾ dəSīnăy; Coptic: Ⲡⲧⲟⲟⲩ Ⲥⲓⲛⲁ), also known as Jabal Musa (Arabic: جَبَل مُوسَىٰ, translation: Mountain of Moses), is a mountain on the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt.
The peninsula acquired the name Sinai in modern times due to the assumption that a mountain near Saint Catherine's Monastery is the Biblical Mount Sinai. [2] Mount Sinai is one of the most religiously significant places in the Abrahamic faiths. The Sinai Peninsula has been a part of Egypt from the First Dynasty of ancient Egypt (c. 3100 BC).
Egypt borders Libya to the west, Palestine and Israel to the east and Sudan to the south (with a current dispute over the halaib triangle). Egypt has an area of 1,010,408 km 2 (390,121 sq mi). [1] [2] The longest straight-line distance in Egypt from north to south is 1,420 km (880 mi), while that from east to west measures 1,275 km (792 mi).
Module:Location map/data/Egypt Sinai; Module:Location map/data/Egypt Sinai/doc; Usage on ceb.wikipedia.org Plantilya:Location map Egypt Sinai; Usage on ckb.wikipedia.org داڕێژە:Location map Egypt Sinai; Usage on cs.wikipedia.org Šarm aš-Šajch; Dahab; Šablona:LocMap Sinaj; El-Tor; Teroristický útok v Bir al-Abed v listopadu 2017
The hypothesis that this mountain is the original Mount Sinai has faced criticism. [3] Some of the arguments against the proposal that Hashem El Tarif is Mount Sinai are as follows: There is no mention in history of Hashem El Tarif, nor any well-known local tradition pointing to it as Mount Sinai.
Thus strongly suggests Mount Sinai was located near the ancient road connecting Egypt to Midian – a road still used today as an Islamic pilgrimage route to Mecca from Egypt. (g) Mount Sinai should be three days journey from Egypt, based on Pharaoh's request of Moses in Exodus 8:24, and Exodus 5:3.
Excavations in northeastern Egypt recently unearthed the ruins of a 3,400-year-old building fit for a king — literally. Archaeologists found the ruined house at the Tel Habwa site on the Sinai ...
The location of Egypt An enlargeable map of Egypt. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Egypt: . Egypt (Arabic: مصر Egyptian Arabic pronunciation:, Arabic:) is a sovereign country located in eastern North Africa that includes the Sinai Peninsula, a land bridge to Asia. [1]