Mount Sinai [Gebel Musa], from Abbas Basha ruined palace, High Mountains of Southern Sinai , Egypt

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This is Moses' wilderness, high arid mountains rather than sandy desert as is often imagined. Mount Sinai is reputed to be Moses's mountain, where he received the ten ruined palace of abbas Basha was built by the 19th-century viceroy Abbas Hilmi .

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