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
