Over 100 years ago Edward Palmer explored the Sinai desert and recorded his findings in a still fascinating book entitled The Desert of the Exodus. At a site called by the Arabs Kuntillat, Palmer found some architectural remains which he identified as a Roman outpost on the ancient road from Gaza to Eilat. According to Palmer, this was the site known from Roman sources as Gipsaria. Zeev Meshel of Tel Aviv University’s Institute for Nature Preserve Research visited the site in 1970. As he tells it, five minutes’ inspection of surface sherds at Palmer’s “Gipsaria” was enough to establish […]
