Timna Park - Solomon's Pillars

Bearing left from the entrance to Timna Park, we come in a few kilometers to Solomon's Pillars, a wall of sandstone 50m/165ft high, glowing red in the sun, which in the course of thousands of years has been carved by erosion into the form of massive pillars. The name, catchy but historically inaccurate, was given to them by the American archeologist Nelson Glueck, who investigated the copper-mines of Timna in the 1930s. A flight of steps leads up to a relief at a height of 30m/100ft in which Pharaoh Ramesses III (1184-53 B.C.) is depicted making an offering to the goddess Hathor.