The Negev is part of an awe-inspiring desert that stretches from Egypt through the southern part of Israel to Jordan and Saudi Arabia. This is the wilderness where man met God. Here Abraham communed with God, and centuries later the prophet Elijah came to the Mountain of God for a momentous encounter with the Creator.
This, in fact, is the region that gave birth to civilization on the banks of the great rivers that surround the desert, and in the oases on the fringes of the wilderness.
The desert trails of the Negev were the conduits for knowledge, culture and development.
The Negev, a small area of 12,000 square kilometers, encompasses all the landforms that make up a desert: desert flats, sand dunes, desert pavements, cliff faces that stretch for dozens of kilometers, deep canyons, and land-forms which are unique to the Negev.
Besides its natural history, the Negev has a long and interesting human history, from pre-historic hunters who roamed the area 10,000 years ago, through biblical times, the Nabateans, the Romans, and more.
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