ala'l-gezaz

Updated: May 15, 2025

The guides seemed to ignore its existence, so we christened it Mashghal Ala'l-Gezaz. On the slope of a trap-hill facing the Wady el-Ghami's, the southern valley which we had last crossed, stood a square of masonry scattered round with fragments of pottery, glass, and basalt. Below it, on the "mesopotamian" plain, lay the foundations of houses still showing their cemented floors.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Land of Midian — Volume 2