Mount Sinai, or Jabal Musa, one of the world’s most sacred religious sites, revered by Muslims, Christians, and Jews, is set to be developed into a 'luxury mega resort'.
The sacred mountain, where God is said to have handed the Ten Commandments to Moses on tablets of stone, is now on course to become home to luxury hotels, restaurants, shopping bazaars, high-end villas, a cable car, and expanded airport facilities.
Construction is already underway at sites close to the 6th-century St Catherine's Monastery, the world's oldest continuously used Christian monastery.
According to a BBC report, the Jebeleya, a traditional Bedouin community living in the area, have had their homes and existing tourist eco-camps demolished and have even been forced to exhume bodies from a local cemetery to make way for a new car park.
The development, known as the 'Great Transfiguration Project,' has been promoted by the government as 'Egypt's gift to the entire world and all religions.'
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