In the unforgiving desert light of day ... claimed to have found the real Mount Sinai in Saudi Arabia’s Tabuk Province near the country’s southwest border that abuts the Gulf of Aqaba.

“I guess they felt safe sleeping next to a human being in the desert,” he says. Hoffler has spent 15 years developing trails in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula ... “Saudi Arabia feels very wild ...

No one expected a boom of Christians — perhaps because no one really thought Saudi Arabia contained any biblical holy sites. Most biblical scholars agree that Mount Sinai is in the Sinai ...

The Nabataeans were desert-dwelling nomads turned ... which included modern-day Jordan, Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, and parts of Saudi Arabia, Israel and Syria. Gradually, the Nabataean identity ...