Har Karkom

Israel / Hadarom / Mizpe Ramon /
 mountain, archaeological site
Har Karkom (Hebrew: הר כרכום‎ "Mountain of Saffron", also called Jabal Ideid) is a mountain in the southwest Negev desert in Israel, half way between Petra and Kadesh Barnea. On the basis that the Israelites travelled across the Sinai peninsula towards Petra in a fairly straight line, a number of scholars have contemplated the possibility of Har Karkom being the Biblical Mount Sinai. Following this theory, Emmanuel Anati excavated at the mountain, and discovered that it was a major paleolithic cult centre, with the surrounding plateau covered with shrines, altars, stone circles, stone pillars, and over 40,000 rock engravings.
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Har_Karkom
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Coordinates:   30°17'18"N   34°44'7"E
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