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#nahal el arish headwaters

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🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city

Qadesh-Barnea (Ain el-Qudeirat)

Iron I–II (c.1200–600 BCE) · Israelite/Judahite → Assyrian Negev administration

Stratified Iron Age desert fortress (65 × 55 m) at the oasis spring Ain el-Qudeirat, identified with biblical Kadesh-Bar...