Red Sea
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The Red Sea is a mediterranean sea lying between the Arabian Peninsula and Africa. It is an inlet of the Indian Ocean. Its connection to the ocean is in the south, through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and
Tihama on the Red Sea near Khaukha, Yemen
Red Sea coast seen from Farasan Islands
Red Sea image from NASA
Dust storm over the Red Sea
Parting of the Red Sea
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The Parting of the Red Sea or Crossing of the Red Sea is an episode in The Exodus, a foundational story in the Hebrew Bible.
Red Sea
…century BCE, Herodotus uses the Red Sea and Southern Sea interchangeably. The term Yam Suph (יַם־סוּף, 'Sea of Reeds') derives from the tale of God's parting of the Red Sea for the Israelites. Historically, it was also known to Western geographers as Mare Mecca ('Sea of Mecca') and Sinus Arabicus ('Arabian Gulf'). Some…
The Crossing of the Red Sea, by Nicolas Poussin (1633–34)
Crossing the Red Sea, Rothschild Haggadah, ca. 1450
Passage of the Jews through the Red Sea (1891), by Ivan Aivazovsky
Pharaoh's army engulfed by the Red Sea, by Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1900)