11 days from Kadesh Barnea to Sinai - Deuteronomy 1:2
On the basis of the latest information we present `Jebel el Lawz' in Saudi Arabia as the biblical Mount Sinai. A study of maps shows that `Jebel el Lawz' is not as distant from Kadesh Barnea as the traditional Mount Sinai, a good sign of its identity. This mountain makes `Nuweiba Beach' the location of the parting of the sea, the Gulf of Aqaba, and would place the Israelites further away from the Egyptians and slavery than was formerly imagined.

For a short account on Petra see Emile C. Egan, `Petra's Wealth' in Archaeology, Mar/Apr 2004, p. 60.; Martha Sharp Joukowsky, Nabatean Petra in BASOR, Nov 2001, p. 1-7; Includes a modern, detailed sketch map of Petra and much more. We also learned that a more ancient name of Petra was Rekem, which is also the name of a Midian clan or tribe, Numbers 31:8.[`The Biblical Archaeologist,' Vol. 36, 1973, p. 57.]

The ancient site of Timna, the valley of copper mines, consists of a semi-circular, erosinal, copper rich valley formation of some 70 sq.km in size just north of ancient Eilat. The Timna Valley is located in the southwestern Arava, some 30 km. north of the Gulf of Eilat. The copper nodules found are said to contain ca. 55% copper on average. Others have located Timna in the Sinai and various other locations.

"Egyptian activity in Canaan is also well documented at the Timna copper mines in the Aravah Valley. The Egyptian finds in the temple at the foot of Solomon's Pillars indicate that the temple and the mines as a whole continued function until the days of Ramses V. Cartouches of Ramses III inscribed on the face of the rock in Timna and near Beerot Oded in the southern Negev indicate the route followed by the Egyptians across the Sinai desert and the southern Negev to Timna. [A. Ben-Tor, `The Archaeology of Ancient Israel', 1992, p. 262.]
Comments: Reading this same account with revised dates in mind for the 20th Dynasty reveals that the Persians fulfill the role to the background of the area and finds just as well or better than the Philistines. See also Here for the 2 paragraphs before this!

For a short account of the place name of Wenet which occurs 5 times in Egyptian sources: 1. In the Old Kingdom list of the official at Sakkara `li-Kai-Nedes', `a recruiter of the desert guides of Wenet'; 2. In the 5th Dynasty tomb of the scribe of the king's army `Kai-aper'; 3. In the 6th Dynasty tomb of `Mereri'; 4. In the 6th Dynasty tomb of `Seneb'; 5. In the Abydos tomb inscription of `Weni', governor of Upper Egypt. For more details see BA, Vol. 51, Sep 1988, p. 152f.