Jebel Mousa in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula is believed to be the mountain (Jebel in Arabic) where the Ten Commandments and the law of God were given orally by God to Moses which then engraved on two stones or tablets. There is an ancient traditional belief that it is Mount Serbal which is an ancient as Jebel Mousa. Others sites have been suggested based on the route of the Exodus and the wanderings of the Israelites such as Jabel Elawz (Almond), a mountain in Saudi Arabia; another har harkom located in a remote section of Israel's Negev desert. The site of Petra, an extraordinary beautiful area in Southern Jordan known for its ancient ruins. The Israelites reached after 3 months out of Egypt. Archaeological evidence of people wandering for forty years in this area (or the exodus) is none. There is no physical trace of a group of hundreds of thousands of people leaving an impact on the land-scape. But this is not a Roman empire, we are talking about a trace has yet to be found of their passing. It is possible that the forces of nature have destroyed the evidence. It is also possible that the route of the journey is unknown and unexamined and the true site of Mount Sinai remains to be found.
In fact, In A. D. 327 Jebel Mousa was identified as the Biblical one by Helena, the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine, who was touring around the Holy Land in search of sacred sites. A chapel was built at the base, and today a large, beautiful Greek Orthodox monastery St. Katherine's can be found there. Within its walls are an impressive library of old manuscripts and a scraggly shrub which some claim is a distant relative of the famous burning bush.