Negev  Sites Gallery

This page summarizes the sites that are reviewed in the area of the Negev.

 

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This page is a sites gallery of the Negev area  - located on the south side of Israel.

 

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Yotvata

 

Ruins of a Roman fort in the Arava, north of Timna. A British police station was built over the ruins. The site may have been one of the stations of the Israelite exodus.

 

ruins of the Roman fortress, Yotvata

 

Deuteronomy 10, 7: "From thence they journeyed ... to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters".

 

   

Solomon's Pillars

 

      Impressive  red rock sandstone hills,  located in the center of the Timna park . The ancient Egyptian copper miners erected here a temple in the times of Ramses III.  

 

 

Zechariah 6,1: "... and the mountains were mountains of brass".

 

 

 

   

 
       Timna

 

   A geological, nature and history desert park, the center of an ancient Egyptian copper mines. In the site are mining workshops, camps and installations, shrine and rock drawings.

 

Timna: Mushroom

      
   

Eilat (Eloth)

 

  Eilat is the southern resort and port city in Israel. Nearby, on the Jordanian side, was the location of Eloth, a major ancient city for 3,000 years, which included King Solomon's sea port of Etzion-Geber.

 

City of Eilat - view towards west

 

1 Kings 9 26: "And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom"

     

 
     Ramon crater -  

 

"Saw Mill"  and colored sand

 

  Geology sites inside the Ramon  crater.

 

   Ramon crater - Saw mill

   
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This page was last updated on Feb 10, 2009    

 

 

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