ABSTRACT
Et-Telah is today on the cross-roads of caravan traffic. In the Nabataean period it was a main halting place for the Nabataean caravans which traversed the ‘Arabah going north and south or crossed it going east and west. From Rujm en-Numeirah it is a day’s camel ride south to et-Telah on the track leading to Aila… The east–west track leads from et-Tafileh to et-Telah, then to el-Hosb (Hazeva), Qurnub, and across the Negeb to Beersheba and Gaza.
