Mount Karkom

Mount Karkom, also Har Karkom (Hebrew: הר כרכום "Mountain of Saffron"), from Arabic Jabal Karkoum (also Jabal Ideid), is a mountain in the southwest Negev desert in Israel, halfway between Petra and Kadesh Barnea.

Following this theory, Emmanuel Anati excavated at the mountain, and discovered that it was a major Paleolithic cult centre, with the surrounding plateau covered with shrines, altars, stone circles, stone pillars, and over 40,000 rock engravings.

[2] James K. Hoffmeier wrote: Scholars have reacted with either indifference or antagonism to Anati's revisionist theory.

Revisionist chronologies are not new but have been roundly rejected by trained historians, biblical scholars, and archaeologists.

Another problem for Anati’s theory is that if this mountain marks the place where Israel received the tablets with the ten commandments, in what language would they have been written between 2200 and 2000 B.C.?

Site of Karkom winterbourne waterfall (dry state) on top of Har Karkom ridge, Israel, showing saffron -coloured rock strata