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Shortly after my first trip to Turkey in 1977, when it became apparent that I couldn't do much regarding the Ark, I was impressed to begin work on the Red Sea crossing site. After the discoveries there, I knew positively that Mt. Sinai was in Saudi Arabia. Being unable to get a visa after almost four years, the only way to get there was to chance entry without one. And while it cost my sons and I almost three months in prison, we found Mt. Sinai. I took my information to others I knew had the connections and ability to obtain legal entry. While we originally agreed to visit the site together, they ended up making the trip alone. However, it appears that with the map and details I furnished them, they were able to photograph the site and bring the photos back with them.
Now, in order that the glory and credit go to the Lord, I feel it my duty to make it known that it was God who led me there. Not my wisdom or the wisdom of others. If different men made each discovery, Noah's Ark, the Red Sea crossing site with the chariot parts, the real Mt. Sinai, and the Ark of the Covenant, people could say they were just lucky or really did their research. But one person could not find all these things without divine leading. It is for this reason that I present the following quotes.
1) From TREASURES OF THE LOST RACES, by Rene Noorbergen, copyrighted in 1982, pp. 163 - 166.
"The theory on which Ron Wyatt was basing his exploratory trip into the Middle East was founded on two very obvious points made by Flavius Josephus and recorded in the Bible. Both mention that the Hebrew children went south from Egypt, through the desert, ending at the shore of the Red Sea in an area where 'the mountains were closed with the sea.' That the Red Sea at that time extended, in name at least, as far as Eilat at the top of the Gulf of Aqaba can be seen in I Kings 9:26, where it states that 'King Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.'
Wyatt reasoned therefore that the Israelites had crossed the Sinai from west to east and had finally reached an area on the eastern coast (Gulf of Aqaba) where a mountain range met the sea. According to the record, the Egyptians had taken over the mountain peaks near the area to prevent the Hebrews from escaping. It also mentions that after they had crossed the Red Sea, Moses took them to 'Mt. Sinai in order to offer sacrifices to God.'
A careful examination of the eastern shore of the Sinai peninsula allows for only one place where two million people and their flocks can be gathered. It is the wide expanse of beach near Nuweba, the south end of which is closed off by steep mountains! Nearby is a wide and wild mountain gorge known as the Wadi Watir, an ancient dried-out riverbed that forms a natural roadway into the Sinai desert. What's more, the traditional Mt. Sinai is deep within the Sinai desert, while both the Bible and Josephus indicate that Moses took the Hebrews to Mt. Sinai after they crossed the Red Sea into what is now known as Arabia. Interestingly, not far from the opposite shore is a mountain known as Jabel El Lawz, a steep, forbidding peak. Is it perhaps possible that this is the Mt. Sinai that Moses speaks of? There are many different theories regarding the possible location of the real Mt. Sinai, and Ron Wyatt's location wasn't all that farfetched. He held that the Israelites, after leaving Egypt, went down the western side of the Sinai along the Gulf of Suez and crossed the Sinai from west to east through its most rugged mountainous section by travelling over the dried-out riverbeds that run into each other. Their route, according to him, could well have gone via the Wadi Feiran, connecting with the Wadi El Akhdar, which in turn runs into the Wadi Salaqa, becomes the Wadi Zaranek, and eventually meets the Gulf of Aqaba via the well-known Wadi Watir. The Wadi Watir is the only wadi that ends at a wide beach-like expanse whose southernmost end is cut off by steep mountains. An escaping horde of people arriving at the Red Sea via the Wadi Watir had only two choices: to be annihilated on the beach by the pursuing armies that could enclose it from the north, while it was hemmed in by mountains on the west and south; or to go forward into the water. There simply could have been no other."
2) From THE CBS MORNING NEWS with Bill Kurtis and Diane Sawyer, Tuesday, April 17, 1984.
BILL KURTIS: 'Three weary Americans came home Monday night; Ronald Wyatt and his sons, Daniel and Ronald, Jr., at the end of an amateur archaeology expedition that landed them in a Saudi Arabian jail. They entered Saudi Arabia illegally, searching for the site of the Biblical Mt. Sinai. Repeated requests for a legal visa were turned down, so the Wyatts slipped across the Jordanian border, only to be arrested by Saudi police as they were heading back. Now what followed was a hair-raising 75 days in custody.
Ronald Wyatt and his sons are with us in the studios of our Nashville affiliate, WTVF, to tell you all about it.
Gentlemen, good morning!
RONALD WYATT AND SONS: Good morning!
BILL KURTIS: Uh, Mr. Wyatt, you there in the middle, your sons on either side, why did you,... uh, I didn't know that Mt. Sinai was in Saudi Arabian territory! Why did you think it was?
RONALD WYATT: We found some chariot parts that looked like the chariots found in King Tut's tomb in the Gulf of Aqaba, west of this Jabel El Lawz. Now, we found these at depths from 60 feet out to 200 feet and over a stretch of about a mile and a half. And we believe that was the crossing site, so in the Biblical narrative, they arrived at Mt. Sinai after crossing the Red Sea. The language in the Bible indicated that they stayed 'in' a mountain; enclosed in a mountain. So, an aerial map showed that this Jabel El Lawz had a large valley enclosed in the rim of an ancient volcano. There's about 5,000 acres in there. We felt this was the place. And, in Exodus 24:4 and Leviticus 6:28, 11:33 and 15:12, it tells of some artifacts that were to be found. There would be twelve pillars of stone and an altar and some pottery, and so this is why we looked at that particular mountain.
3) Direct quote from DAVID FASOLD regarding his accompaniment with Ron on the April, 1985 visit to Saudi Arabia, July 16, 1989.
"On April 2, 3 and 4 of 1985, an archaeological survey was conducted by Mr. Ronald Wyatt of Madison, Tennessee, at Jabel El Lawz, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The molecular survey, leading to points of interest, was carried out by Mr. David Fasold of Port Salerno, Florida, who accompanied Mr. Wyatt and Samran AI-Moteiri, a prominent citizen of Tabuk, who had gained permission to conduct the survey. The purpose of the investigation was that Mr. Wyatt's premise that the mountain, Jabel El Lawz, represented the true Mt. Sinai in the land of Midian, which is, of course, in northern Arabia, and not in the Sinai Peninsula.
The site is located some 144 kilometers by road from Tabuk towards Hagl. When soon after crossing a bridge, a dry wadi is followed west for a distance of 48.7 kilometers.
Upon questioning a bedouin in the area if this was indeed Jabel El Lawz, Ibrahim Salem Frich responded with "nahm, Jabel Musa henna!", which means "yes, the mountain of Moses is here! "
The bedouin showed us the remains of a temple that, during the reign of Sulyimin, the Turkish "Sulyimin, the great", had been stripped of cut stone for building material for a mosque in Hagl. I would have liked to have seen this mosque to ascertain how many blocks were removed from the site, but time did not permit.
25 rectangular blocks, 16 1/2" by 8 1/4", varying in length from 26 1/4" to 39", were scattered at the site below a raised platform, and 10 pillar sections are visible, varying in height from 10" to 26" with a 22 3/4" diameter. The temple platform represents 1/4 of a circle leading from a set of three pools joined to a large rock best described as the size of an "up-ended" car, which carries slightly incised, esoteric symbols. This site nestles between two mountains.
Closer to the wadi, the molecular survey uncovered a line of 12 circles of stone with an outside diameter of 18 feet, consisting of three rows of stones in thickness. It would appear to this writer that the construction was not a "shaft grave" or walls for wells, but the remains of standing towers. The 12 were spaced five feet apart from one another in a straight line bearing 193 degrees magnetic. The elevation at this site is 4,050 feet, some 20 feet above the wadi, 70 feet below the temple remains and less than 1/8 of a mile distance from the temple; from tower number four, Jabel El Lawz bearing 216 degrees and the other mountain at 270 degrees.
Directly across the wadi, a survey line was followed to a low grouping of stones that were covered with petroglyphs in the following manner: an area of the stone was washed with a substance that was absorbed by the rock about 1/8 of an inch; a pointed tool was then employed that, when struck against the blackened rock to a depth of 1/4 of an inch, left a white mark. The artist thus portrayed images of Hathor and Apis, the Egyptian sacred cows, in dotted outline with their markings, in several cases, six figures apiece.
When shown to an archaeologist sent from Riyad University to verify the site, Wyatt was congratulated on the discovery and the area promptly closed. All photographs were confiscated.
Two visits to the site in the spring of 1988 by Larry Williams, an explorer from Rancho Santa Fe, California, verified by photograph that the petroglyph site was now enclosed by a 12 foot, chain link fence and barbed wire, with a large blue and white 4 foot by 8 foot sign in the Arabic and English that it was a protected site of historical importance. Two other sites, the temple and the towers, are protected by the same type fence, encircling two entire mountains.
This writer feels that the cost involved in the fencing alone shows that the Saudis are taking this site very seriously.
This writer feels there are numerous problems with identifying the site as the "Mountain of Moses", as well as the traditional site on the peninsula. But until further examination, it remains a mystery.
Certainly, the 12 towers in connection with what is undoubtedly petroglyphs of Egyptian origin in the land of Midian should raise interest. I can assure you that this was Wyatt's first trip to the site, but not his first attempt. I can personally verify that the discoveries were made in accordance with the theory formulated by Wyatt that the Exodus route from the Egyptians crossed the eastern arm of the Red Sea, into Midian and returning to Mt. Horeb - Jabel El Lawz.
Signed,
David Fasold"
4) From THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, "Larry Williams Hit Contest Home Run But His Clients Could Still Strike Out" by John R. Dorfman, May 1989.
"Consider the case of Larry R. Williams, a swing-for-the-fences commodity trader. In a 1987 contest, he parlayed a $10,000 stake into more that $1 million."
"He had twice won the Republican nomination for a U.S. Senate seat from Montana, though he lost the general elections and later moved to California. He recently made an expedition to Saudi Arabia, where, he claims, he and his colleagues found the true site of the Biblical Mount Sinai."
COMMENT: I called Larry when I heard they had made the trip, and he informed me that the photos had been turned over to Harvard University for study. That is all he told me.
5) From HIGH FLIGHT FOUNDATION NEWSLETTER, Headed by Jim Irwin "Report by Bob Cornuke on Noah's Ark and Mt. Sinai", July 1988
"Great news! We strongly feel that the real Mt. Sinai has been discovered. Since February, we have been searching in Egypt and Saudi Arabia in an attempt to find the real Mt. Sinai, currently believed to be in Egypt. The Bible, however, is quite clear that Mt. Sinai is in Arabia (Galatians 4:25). We have found an underwater land bridge in the Red Sea in the area of the tip of the Sinai Peninsula. This land bridge was photographed and found to be a perfect underwater bridge to Arabia.
Larry Williams and I have taken two trips to Saudi Arabia and traveled
to Jabel Al Lawz. This mountain is believed by some Biblical scholars to
possibly be the real Mt. Sinai. Jabel Al Lawz is an 8,000 ft. mountain with
a huge valley at its base. In this valley we found an ancient altar with
petroglyphs of the Egyptian bull god, Hathor, inscribed in the rocks. We
feel this is the altar where Aaron made the Golden Calf. There were also
very strong readings of the mineral gold registered at this site."
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