The mountain kept its secrets for centuries,
its air of sacred mystery enhanced by a remote location in the Negev
Desert in southern Israel.

But one day last week, hundreds of Israeli adventurers headed deep
into the wilderness to reach Mount Karkom, determined to get closer to
answering a question as intriguing as it is controversial: Is this the
Mount Sinai of the Bible, where God is believed to have communicated
with Moses?

Mount Sinai’s location has long been disputed by scholars both
religious and academic, and there are a dozen more traditional
contenders, most of them in the mountainous expanses of the Sinai
Peninsula across the border in Egypt.

But Mount Karkom’s claim has gained some popular support because of an
annual natural phenomenon that an intrepid group of archaeology and
nature enthusiasts had come to witness for themselves.

[www.nytimes.com]

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