Word: ammon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...antiquarians. It seemed only natural, therefore, for some adventurous German technicians working at Gamal Abdel Nasser's jet airplane factory outside Cairo to decide to drive 300 miles across the Libyan Desert to the remote Siwa Oasis, site of Roman temple ruins and the classical oracle of Jupiter Ammon, consulted by Alexander the Great. It was to be a week-long vacation. The group included Gunther Wanderscheck, Reinhold Rimm, and Hans Hauser, together with Cairo Salesman Klaus Böhm, and his wife Gudrun. They took two Volkswagens, a sedan and a Micro Bus, and Gudrun, who took along her camera...
...including a heavy cast cauldron with a jug and strainer. A bronze-founding industry may have grown up because of plentiful firewood in the nearby mountains. If the city was really Zarethan, its destruction by fire can readily be explained. An inscription on Egypt's Great Temple of Ammon at Karnak tells how Pharaoh Sheshonk I ravaged this part of Palestine a few years after Solomon's death...
Even while he was learning the pottery code, the young rabbi kept coming back to the historical cadences of the Hebrew Old Testament. He planned his first ambitious explorations in Moab, Edom, Ammon, and the wild desert haunts of the Kenites and Midianites...