The Desert Of Sinai

Download or read book Sinai written by Zeev Meshel and published by British Archaeological Reports Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of reports from archaeological excavations and surveys carried out, some by the author himself, since the diverse Sinai desert was opened up to Israeli researchers in 1967. The excavations include Nabotean sites and fortresses, an Iron Age fortress and an 8th-century BCE Israelite settlement. There is also a landscape survey of the hills of Northwestern Sinai. The smaller second section contains studies of `Desert Kites', triangular hunting enclosures, in the Sinai and Southern Negev, Sinai rock inscriptions and past and present desert nomads.