الأحد، 20 مايو 2012

Tiran Island

Located at the entrance of the Gulf of Aqaba, the island away from the coast of Sinai, 6.5 km area of ​​61 km 2, an island barren is accessed with difficulty by sea and there is the stability of human beings, despite its history the old and the role of civilization in the history of Sinai and it is impossible for a single ministry no matter what their means working out a single the difficulty of access and of livingTiran Island Current, which is located at the base of the Gulf of Aqaba to Ras Mohammed is the area Juthab old, which was the station customs Imperial Byzantine period in the sixth century AD, for the collection of taxes on trade from India to the ports, Byzantine, and it was the Byzantines activity of a large trade in the sixth century AD and imported silk from India, Ethiopia and sandalwood from China, glass, embroidered cloth from Syria.As the merchants of Ethiopia brought these goods to the port of Aduly on the Red Sea which is the capital of the Kingdom of Aksum, including the movement of ships Byzantine goods to the island of Juthab and accumulate in Juthab also boats Byzantine trade in spices with Arab ports on the eastern shore of the Red Sea, and Juthab sailing ships to Ayla ( Aqaba road) and to Qulzum (Suez) and Qulzum overland to the Nile and from Alexandria, including the products are distributed east for every Mediterranean and the mutual trade in the era of Byzantine include papyrus, spices from Egypt and the spices come to Egypt from the Far East.In the sixth century AD established the Emperor Justinian lighthouse on the hill the southern island of Pharaoh Taba to guide merchant ships coming from the island of Juthab to the head of the Gulf of Aqaba and left a garrison of soldiers to manage and guard the lighthouse, so I created them with living quarters and guard rooms on the lighthouse, was unveiled this lighthouse in 1989 and an area of ​​22 m from east to west 13 m from north to south, built a granite stone harvested from the same hill and slabs of limestone in the ceilings, and private accommodation next to the lighthouse to the commander of the Byzantine garrison surrounded by rooms and a guard of soldiers.
Were also detected a small church in the island of Pharaoh private garrison Byzantine located in the lighthouse and the stones with inscriptions and symbols of Christianity, did not affect the poor have thrown up the great leader Saladin castle on the island of Pharaoh in 1170, and near Sharm el-Sheikh found the effects of the Sinai for the Islamic and Coptic Monuments on the large jar of storage jars, which were transported by boat from Juthab to Ayla.This great civilization on the land of the island of Tiran hide archaeological treasures may be equivalent to the treasures of Tutankhamun did not reach the hands of thieves, did not publish any reports on the work of archaeological excavations in the course of Israel's occupation of the Sinai

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