Stars bursting above the triangular peak of the mountain that may be Mount Sinai in the middle of the night, in Saudi Arabia. (credit: BRIAN SCHRAUGER) At the base of the mountain, we entered St.

“Sinai,” wrote T.E. Lawrence—better known as Lawrence of Arabia—to a friend in England ... and longitude for what they variously called Mount Sinai, MountHoreb, and the Mountain of the ...

An Israeli tour, journeying to the far reaches of Saudi Arabia for the purposes of biblical archaeology, including the ...