An example might be limiting the use of vehicles on a roadway during a shift changeover, when many pedestrians are likely to be crossing. The book series is a very light mystery, nothing scary or gross going on there (despite the main character being a forensic anthropologist). Evidence also shows that this southern Sinai territory was a region of pilgrimage and religious veneration for the Nabataeans as early as the third century b.

Are they the remains of a local girl who disappeared ten years earlier – or are the bones much older? British involvement in the slave trade increased in the 1700s after the Treaty of Utrecht (1713) gave them the right to sell enslaved people in the Spanish Empire. When Nelson receives a creepy letter which very much looks like those old ones that were sent to him by Erik Anderssen, he teams up with forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway to work the new case which turns to be old, thus allowing them to close a long-forgotten cold case. Crossley-Holland's writing career began when he became a poetry, fiction, and children's book editor for Macmillan. Enslaved people were chained together in groups, and taken by boat along West Africa’s waterways to the coast.In his 40 years of shepherding, is it outside the realm of possibility that Moses traveled to the Sinai Peninsula—as the Bible describes, the “remotest,” “backside” part of the wilderness? Father Hennessey tells them that two children actually went missing about 40-years ago from the home. Exodus 13:21 is cited, describing God leading the Israelites by a pillar of fire by day and cloud by night.

The Crossing Places is the first book in the Ruth Galloway series by award-winning British author, Elly Griffiths. Clearly, Mount Sinai was a territory somewhere remote to mainland Midian—again, fitting with the Sinai Peninsula, and again, fitting with a western, Gulf of Suez sea crossing to get to it.

The evidence seems compelling: Jabal al-Lawz/Maqla must be Mount Sinai, and the Gulf of Aqaba must have been the location of the Red Sea crossing.

They include The Crossing Places, The Janus Stone, The House at Sea’s End, A Room Full of Bones, A Dying Fall, and The Outcast Dead. The black peak of Jabal Maqla is reportedly due to a makeup of black igneous volcanic rocks (it’s also worth pointing out that much of the surrounding general mountain range is also black—as shown below).It is forbidden to copy anything for publication elsewhere without written permission from the copyright holder. Further, Exodus 18 describes the freed Israelites encamped at the mountain of God, and being visited by a traveling Jethro, “priest of Midian.