According to the Old Testament, St Catherine stands at the foot of the Mt Horeb, and it is connected with Sinai region of the Exodus. Unesco refers to the site as a place of worship of Muslims to which they call Jebel Musa. The observation that the entire region is sacred to three world religions is not only incorrect it also nullifies OT’s own narratives as well. Archaeology as usual holds the mirror for identifying this place for Unesco.

St Catherine’s monastery was a place in the ancient Babylon where its kings hoped of building ‘ladders’ to ‘Heaven’. It exactly identifies the Omobono and Sitabana of Eratosthenes Maps. It was Ophir of the Bible that identifies Utpala or Blue Lotus region(Ptolemais). The name Catherine suggests its origin in the region of Mt Caucasus and its other name in both Indian and Pali texts is Kakustha. The Buddha crossed  the river Kakusthan on his way to Kusinagara, same as Jericho of the Bible, Some scholars see Kakustha as ‘Rats’ (means ‘Musa’), and others see it as Coptos also. From the name of Kakustha originated the name of ‘Caucasus’; Alexander’s Indian invasion accounts put the geography of this mountain near Phrygia or Bagha that identifies the plain of the river Tigris in the Negev. How can Unesco identifies it in the present Cyprus? Mt Horeb is as same as Mt Hor of the Bible that identifies the seat of worship of Sage Kasyapa on the bank of the Caspian Sea; Kesaba means ‘gold’ and it identifies ‘Kesaba Bridge’ of the Avesta. Mt Sinai has been defined in a beautiful way by ancient texts, according to which, it is ‘name of all the mountains of a region’. So Sinai refers to a region rather than to a single place.

A scholarly look at the map of Alexander’s invasion accounts reveals his route to City of Cyprus which was neighbourly to both the regions of Kuru and Gordion(Garuda country of Indian puranas). Present Cyprus thus is the ‘second settlement’ after the Flood.