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[Music] [Music] in the last scenes of a very<font color="#E5E5E5"> famous</font> movie<font color="#CCCCCC"> The Lost Ark of the Covenant</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> box that<font color="#E5E5E5"> once held the Ten Commandments</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">is created and abandoned in the basement</font> of<font color="#E5E5E5"> a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> warehouse</font> [Music] what if Hollywood's depiction accurately reflects reality<font color="#E5E5E5"> this would mean at</font> hiding somewhere<font color="#E5E5E5"> there's tangible proof</font> of the story the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Bible</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> calls the exodus</font> the deliverance of<font color="#CCCCCC"> the Israelites</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> from</font> Egypt<font color="#E5E5E5"> led by the prophet Moses well</font> right<font color="#E5E5E5"> here in this building there's a</font> 3500 year old gold image carved<font color="#E5E5E5"> perhaps</font> by an eyewitness<font color="#E5E5E5"> to the biblical</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> exodus</font> of<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Lost Ark of the Covenant and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> people in there<font color="#E5E5E5"> don't realize it</font> [Music] [Music] <font color="#E5E5E5">Exodus for thousands of years the</font> biblical epic has captured<font color="#E5E5E5"> the human</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">imagination</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but did it really happen</font> when you come to the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Exodus we have no</font> evidence<font color="#E5E5E5"> that it happened and a good</font> deal of<font color="#CCCCCC"> evidence that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he didn't</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I made</font> it up painstaking excavation under 150 feet of sand and rock<font color="#CCCCCC"> they discovered the</font> ancient<font color="#CCCCCC"> 1110</font> something must<font color="#E5E5E5"> have happened</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I can't</font> explain what<font color="#CCCCCC"> happened</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but it's shaped</font> ancient Israel's identity and therefore I can't dismiss it as a<font color="#CCCCCC"> fairytale in the</font> famed<font color="#E5E5E5"> Valley of the Kings</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> where</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> 60</font> Egyptian pharaohs were buried<font color="#E5E5E5"> minster</font> splendor the<font color="#E5E5E5"> world has never equal</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">archaeologists</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> what can you dig up which</font> is going<font color="#CCCCCC"> to prove the Exodus</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">what would you have to find in order to</font> prove the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Exodus</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the Exodus story is at</font> the very heart<font color="#CCCCCC"> of Christianity Judaism</font> and Islam<font color="#E5E5E5"> for thousands of years</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">believers have treated it as historical</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">fact but in the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> past few decades</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">scholars have</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> called the story a fairy</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">tale</font> I'm James Cameron<font color="#E5E5E5"> and I know a filmmaker</font> who<font color="#E5E5E5"> for nearly a decade</font> has been<font color="#E5E5E5"> on</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> mission to answer a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> three</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">thousand-year-old</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> question is the Exodus</font> fact or fiction his name is simcha Jakob ovitch and he's a two-time Emmy winner in investigative journalism he claims that<font color="#E5E5E5"> scholars have missed the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">archaeological evidence that's hiding</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in</font> plain sight more<font color="#E5E5E5"> than that he</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> seems to have</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> come</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> up</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">with the goods by putting together the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">long forgotten pieces of the ultimate</font> archaeological mystery how did we do<font color="#E5E5E5"> it by</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> tracking down</font> experts from a variety of<font color="#CCCCCC"> disciplines</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">who rarely if ever talk to each other</font> none of them fully subscribes<font color="#E5E5E5"> to our</font> take on<font color="#CCCCCC"> the story</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but many possess</font> critical<font color="#CCCCCC"> pieces</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of the puzzle and what</font> emerges<font color="#E5E5E5"> challenge even the most</font> skeptical but before<font color="#E5E5E5"> we show</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you the evidence</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that</font> start the story<font color="#E5E5E5"> at the beginning the</font> biblical tale begins when the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Hebrew</font> patriarch Jacob<font color="#E5E5E5"> escapes drought in the</font> land of Canaan modern Israel<font color="#E5E5E5"> and moves</font> to<font color="#E5E5E5"> the land of plenty</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the land of the</font> pyramids<font color="#E5E5E5"> ancient</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Egypt</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">they're</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Jacobs clan the future</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Israelites flourish in their new</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">environment</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">in fact</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Jacobs son Joseph became as</font> powerful as the rulers of<font color="#E5E5E5"> Egypt the</font> Pharaohs and yet after<font color="#E5E5E5"> Joseph dies</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> his</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> people are</font> enslaved<font color="#E5E5E5"> by</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the ruling Egyptians more</font> than a century<font color="#CCCCCC"> later the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Egyptians</font> became afraid<font color="#CCCCCC"> of revolution</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> instituted a policy<font color="#CCCCCC"> of drowning</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> all the</font> Israelite male infants it was at this <font color="#E5E5E5">point</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Jacobs great-great grandson was</font> born<font color="#E5E5E5"> to avoid death</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the infant was</font> hidden in<font color="#E5E5E5"> the bulrushes</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> where he was</font> found<font color="#CCCCCC"> by Pharaoh's daughter the princess</font> adopted him<font color="#E5E5E5"> and named him Moses</font> when Moses grew up he sided with<font color="#E5E5E5"> his</font> oppressed brethren<font color="#E5E5E5"> and fled into the</font> desert<font color="#E5E5E5"> 60 years later he returned to</font> utter the unforgettable cry<font color="#E5E5E5"> let my</font> people go<font color="#E5E5E5"> 10 times Pharaoh said no to</font> Moses and<font color="#CCCCCC"> 10 times</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> God struck Egypt with</font> catastrophic plagues ultimately<font color="#E5E5E5"> killing</font> all Egyptian firstborn males finally Pharaoh let the Israelites go<font color="#E5E5E5"> but then</font> changed<font color="#E5E5E5"> his mind</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and pursued Moses and</font> his<font color="#CCCCCC"> followers to the edge of the sea</font> look like the Israelites<font color="#E5E5E5"> were trapped</font> but then the impossible happened<font color="#E5E5E5"> the sea</font> parted and<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Israelites crossed to</font> safety Moses now<font color="#E5E5E5"> led his followers to Mount</font> Sinai<font color="#E5E5E5"> where they received the Ten</font> Commandments<font color="#CCCCCC"> the sacred</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> laws they would</font> take with them to<font color="#CCCCCC"> the promised land</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> most</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">scholars believe this story is a myth so</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">even when the evidence is staring them</font> in the face they ignore<font color="#CCCCCC"> it the most</font> dramatic<font color="#E5E5E5"> example of this took place</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">1947 when archaeologists unleash</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> alia</font> found pieces of a broken stone monument or<font color="#CCCCCC"> stella dating to a pharaoh named</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">joseph</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> around 1500 before the Common Era</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">or vce incredibly the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Osmos</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Estela</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> is</font> covered in hieroglyphic inscriptions that<font color="#E5E5E5"> mirror the biblical tale today it</font> lies abandoned in the basement<font color="#E5E5E5"> of the</font> Cairo Museum<font color="#E5E5E5"> and all our attempts to get</font> access<font color="#CCCCCC"> to it were unsuccessful</font> so using chevaliers<font color="#E5E5E5"> published</font> description we reconstructed the Stella <font color="#CCCCCC">and got one</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of the world's leading</font> Egyptologists to comment on it<font color="#E5E5E5"> we have</font> this very interesting<font color="#CCCCCC"> Stila</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> which is</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">dated to the reign of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> F Massey</font> it<font color="#E5E5E5"> records</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a tremendous catastrophe that</font> happened to Egypt<font color="#E5E5E5"> we're not quite clear</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">what it was but it involved</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> rain and</font> thunder and lightning and such a storm <font color="#E5E5E5">that rarely happens</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in Northeast Africa</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I mean that's a dry area</font> it sounds peculiar<font color="#E5E5E5"> to me that the</font> biblical tradition<font color="#E5E5E5"> preserves the memory</font> of plagues<font color="#E5E5E5"> you know which involve Quebec</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">climatic cataclysms</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and here we have</font> from the very<font color="#E5E5E5"> time is curious stiva</font> this curious<font color="#CCCCCC"> teller</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> mean fact hold the</font> key<font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Exodus enigma let's take a</font> closer<font color="#E5E5E5"> look</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Bible says that at the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> time of the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">exodus</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> there was a great storm Hamas</font> Estella also talks of a great storm the Bible says<font color="#E5E5E5"> darkness descended on</font> Egypt <font color="#CCCCCC">Estela says that Egypt</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was enveloped in</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">darkness</font> [Music] the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Stella then says something</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> very</font> peculiar<font color="#E5E5E5"> those Egyptians worshiped many</font> gods<font color="#CCCCCC"> on this teller it is</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> written that</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> storm and the darkness happened when</font> God<font color="#E5E5E5"> in the singular manifested his power</font> the Bible<font color="#CCCCCC"> describes Pharaoh but never</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">names</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> because of this Stella we now know</font> his name<font color="#CCCCCC"> a small</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> sip and now that we</font> know<font color="#CCCCCC"> who he is</font> maybe it's time that we<font color="#E5E5E5"> met him this is</font> the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Cairo</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Museum home to some</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> most famous<font color="#E5E5E5"> mummies ever unearthed we</font> came here in search of Pharaoh<font color="#E5E5E5"> Osmos it</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the man who we believe is the Pharaoh of</font> the Exodus at first we couldn't<font color="#E5E5E5"> locate him</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> but we</font> did locate his father<font color="#E5E5E5"> second</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Enric how</font> the second if we<font color="#CCCCCC"> are right</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> this is one</font> of<font color="#CCCCCC"> the pharaohs who oppressed the</font> Israelites according<font color="#E5E5E5"> to most scholars</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">his cow had been crushed by enemy axes</font> perhaps those enemies<font color="#CCCCCC"> where Israelites</font> smashing his mummy<font color="#CCCCCC"> as they left on the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Exodus we continued on our search frosmo</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">said it was hard to locate</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> him because</font> he had<font color="#E5E5E5"> been sort of misfiled but we did</font> locate one of<font color="#CCCCCC"> his two wives</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> under some</font> debris<font color="#CCCCCC"> in one of the museum's workshops</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I revealed</font> according to<font color="#E5E5E5"> our calculations</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> this</font> somewhat discarded glass coffin<font color="#E5E5E5"> contains</font> the mummy of a woman whose husband contended<font color="#CCCCCC"> with Moses</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and hardened his</font> heart to<font color="#CCCCCC"> God himself</font> at last we located<font color="#CCCCCC"> Barrow amasing</font> here is the man who<font color="#E5E5E5"> confronted Moses</font> [Music] can it be that as Moses father remembered the Israelite<font color="#E5E5E5"> Prince he grew</font> up<font color="#E5E5E5"> with and when he gave</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> his son his</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Egyptian name</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Ozma say the moon is born</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">he chose the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> name because of a play on</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">words in Hebrew</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Ozma</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> simmias the brother</font> of Moses [Music] in history<font color="#E5E5E5"> fair</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> osmosis most famous for</font> expelling a foreign nation from Egypt around<font color="#E5E5E5"> 1500 BCE at the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> time</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Egypt</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was</font> ruled by a people<font color="#E5E5E5"> that the ancients</font> called<font color="#CCCCCC"> hexes until recently little was</font> known about the<font color="#CCCCCC"> hexes then in the 1960s</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">their ancient capital</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a virus was</font> discovered<font color="#E5E5E5"> north of Cairo</font> [Music] no one has ever<font color="#E5E5E5"> been allowed</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to film at</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">a virus to get</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> there we needed the</font> cooperation of<font color="#CCCCCC"> the Egyptian authorities</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">they're concerned and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in the volatile</font> Middle East<font color="#CCCCCC"> the discovery of biblical</font> artifacts<font color="#E5E5E5"> will somehow strengthen modern</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Israel's claims in the area as a result</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Exodus is a touchy subject in Egypt</font> today<font color="#E5E5E5"> so we didn't mention Moses and we</font> stressed that we were interested<font color="#E5E5E5"> in</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Pharaoh Ozma say and the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Hyksos he drove</font> out<font color="#CCCCCC"> of Egypt after</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> months of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">negotiations were finally given permits</font> to shoot at a virus [Music] [Music] this is a<font color="#E5E5E5"> virus</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a walled city</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> dominated</font> by palaces<font color="#E5E5E5"> 3,500 years ago</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it was</font> surrounded<font color="#CCCCCC"> by branches of the Nile the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">virus was discovered by professor</font> manfred bietak<font color="#CCCCCC"> of the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> university of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">vienna although only a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> few acres are</font> exposed today<font color="#CCCCCC"> in ancient</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> times</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a virus</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">seems to have dominated</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the area a virus</font> itself was much<font color="#E5E5E5"> bigger</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was 250</font> hectares<font color="#E5E5E5"> so it extended from here to the</font> east<font color="#CCCCCC"> about 2</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> kilometers and from here to</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> south steps even one kilometer in</font> the richest period<font color="#E5E5E5"> this was one</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of the</font> major residence of Egyptian<font color="#E5E5E5"> pharaohs</font> Egyptian<font color="#CCCCCC"> history clearly states that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Hyksos who ruled mighty avarice were</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Semites like the Israelites</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and that</font> they left on a mass exodus<font color="#E5E5E5"> known as the</font> Hyksos expulsion<font color="#E5E5E5"> we have in the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Bible</font> the story<font color="#CCCCCC"> of the Semites</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> leaving Egypt</font> and going eastward<font color="#E5E5E5"> from Egypt at the</font> same time<font color="#E5E5E5"> independent of the Bible we</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">have a story of the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Hyksos being</font> expelled<font color="#E5E5E5"> from Egypt</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I think definitely</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> two stories are related they're</font> describing<font color="#E5E5E5"> the same event from different</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">viewpoints if the Hyksos expulsion and</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> biblical Exodus</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> are really one in</font> the<font color="#CCCCCC"> same event</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> then</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> perhaps</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we can find</font> the long<font color="#CCCCCC"> sought-after</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> proof for the</font> biblical<font color="#E5E5E5"> Exodus during the Hyksos period</font> but most<font color="#E5E5E5"> scholars</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> say that the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Hyksos</font> and the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Israelites</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> cannot be</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> equated</font> because the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Hyksos left Egypt</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> hundreds</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">of years before Moses was born these</font> scholars<font color="#E5E5E5"> also</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> say that the chronology of</font> ancient Egypt cannot be<font color="#E5E5E5"> tampered with</font> you can play<font color="#CCCCCC"> with Egyptian dates you can</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">move them up maybe</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> ten years and down</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">ten</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> years</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> but you can't move up up and</font> down<font color="#CCCCCC"> 50 or a hundred years that's not</font> possible and yet many people<font color="#E5E5E5"> try</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to do that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they</font> try<font color="#E5E5E5"> to adjust chronology to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> fit their</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">predetermined notion of biblical history</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">you can't do it</font> but maybe we have<font color="#CCCCCC"> to what if scholars</font> are placing the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Exodus in the wrong time</font> period<font color="#E5E5E5"> imagine the confusion</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> if in the</font> future<font color="#E5E5E5"> scholars date World War</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> two to</font> the 1990s <font color="#E5E5E5">you'll never find any evidence</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that it</font> actually<font color="#E5E5E5"> happened</font> currently most scholars date the exodus to<font color="#CCCCCC"> 1270 BCE during the reign of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Pharaoh</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Ramses the second</font> but some scholars<font color="#CCCCCC"> are now breaking</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> with</font> that consensus the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Bible gives</font> information<font color="#CCCCCC"> that would put the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Exodus</font> about<font color="#E5E5E5"> 480 years before the early years</font> of<font color="#E5E5E5"> Solomon in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the middle of the 15th</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">century</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> BC</font> professor Benson's calculations<font color="#E5E5E5"> move the</font> exodus from<font color="#E5E5E5"> its present date to 1470 BCE</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">less than 100 years from the traditional</font> date for the Hyksos expulsion<font color="#E5E5E5"> these are</font> too close<font color="#E5E5E5"> to write off as a coincidence</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">so we have a new date for the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Exodus</font> approximately 1500 BCE <font color="#E5E5E5">I think sauce and the Hyksos expulsion</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">is what we're talking about when we are</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">talking about the exodus alright</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> our new</font> date<font color="#CCCCCC"> for the exodus is 1500 BC</font> we know from<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Bible that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> Israelites arrived in Egypt<font color="#E5E5E5"> some 200</font> years<font color="#CCCCCC"> before</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> their Exodus in the</font> original Hebrew the Bible calls<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> Israelites God's<font color="#E5E5E5"> people or</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Amal</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Israel if we write about our dates</font> there should be hard<font color="#E5E5E5"> archaeological</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">evidence</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> for the arrival of these</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> ammo</font> around<font color="#E5E5E5"> 1700 BCE</font> 400 kilometers south of a virus is the tomb at Beni<font color="#E5E5E5"> Hasan</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it dates to 1700 BCE</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">because no one has looked for evidence</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">of the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Exodus</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in this period the tomb</font> has never been linked<font color="#E5E5E5"> to the biblical</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">story and yet there is a perfectly</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">preserved wall painting here that</font> records an ancient migration into Egypt from<font color="#E5E5E5"> the area of modern Israel</font> [Music] as in the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Bible the scene involves</font> bearded<font color="#E5E5E5"> Semites riding donkeys and</font> bringing their families and flocks into Egypt<font color="#E5E5E5"> like the biblical Israelites</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> they</font> are wearing<font color="#E5E5E5"> multicolored tunics the</font> hieroglyphic inscription<font color="#E5E5E5"> on this wall</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">calls these people the r-mo</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> god's people</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">looking in the right place during the</font> right time we are the<font color="#E5E5E5"> first to recognize</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">a veritable snapshot of the migration of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the biblical Israelites to Egypt the</font> Bible<font color="#CCCCCC"> records that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> at the time of their</font> arrival<font color="#E5E5E5"> one</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> israelite rose to the</font> highest levels of Egyptian power<font color="#E5E5E5"> his</font> name was Joseph son of Yaakov<font color="#E5E5E5"> Jacob in</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">English and he became so</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> powerful that</font> he wore on<font color="#E5E5E5"> his finger the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> seal of royal</font> authority<font color="#E5E5E5"> discovering Joseph's seal at</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Avaris</font> would prove<font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the Israelites arrived</font> here<font color="#E5E5E5"> exactly when our timeline predicts</font> that would be like finding<font color="#E5E5E5"> a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> needle in a</font> 3700 year old the archaeological haystack [Music] [Music] incredibly the tiny seal was found <font color="#E5E5E5">precisely at the archaeological layer we</font> anticipated<font color="#E5E5E5"> in fact professor manfred</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">bietak found no less than nine seals</font> worn by<font color="#CCCCCC"> Joseph's court officials and</font> scribed<font color="#CCCCCC"> right on them</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> is the Hebrew name</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Yaakov Joseph's father</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it's very strange</font> that<font color="#E5E5E5"> we found nine seals with the name</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Yakov here it's a biblical</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> name by the</font> way the original was probably mounted on a ring<font color="#CCCCCC"> worn on the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> finger and this gives</font> us a new<font color="#CCCCCC"> puzzle</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> is it really a puzzle</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">not if one uses our chronology</font> this is the only time that a Hebrew name appears on an Egyptian royal seal it directly connects<font color="#E5E5E5"> a virus with a Bible</font> the professor be<font color="#E5E5E5"> tax</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> tears clear of</font> biblical chronology<font color="#CCCCCC"> he's under the</font> constant<font color="#E5E5E5"> watch of the Egyptian</font> Antiquities Authority<font color="#E5E5E5"> who have made a</font> forest<font color="#E5E5E5"> off-limits to the public</font> supposedly<font color="#E5E5E5"> for conservation reasons</font> professor<font color="#CCCCCC"> btik has been</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> forced to cover</font> up his dig every single year<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> areas</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">then plowed seeded and cultivated</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> by</font> local farmers no one would suspect that <font color="#E5E5E5">underneath these fields lies an</font> archaeological treasure trove<font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font> proves the biblical Exodus [Music] now that we found hard evidence for<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> arrival<font color="#E5E5E5"> of the Israelites in Egypt and</font> their rise to<font color="#CCCCCC"> power and when searching</font> for archaeological<font color="#CCCCCC"> proof of their</font> downfall<font color="#CCCCCC"> in the slavery</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that led to the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Exodus in search of the evidence</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we had</font> to travel<font color="#CCCCCC"> to a place called</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Sarah</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> beat</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">al Haddad 400 kilometers south of the</font> Nile Delta<font color="#E5E5E5"> into the Sinai desert</font> [Music] for thousands<font color="#E5E5E5"> of years Egyptians mined</font> turquoise in this area often<font color="#CCCCCC"> they</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> used</font> slave<font color="#E5E5E5"> labor</font> the ancient turquoise mines<font color="#E5E5E5"> are off the</font> beaten<font color="#CCCCCC"> tourist track the only ones who</font> know their way<font color="#E5E5E5"> in this area are the</font> better ones<font color="#CCCCCC"> still live at the foot of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the mines</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I heard once that Bedouin</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they</font> can do like the Prophet Musa<font color="#E5E5E5"> that they</font> know which rocks<font color="#E5E5E5"> have water in them they</font> break it<font color="#E5E5E5"> is that true we got here here</font> our respects to the<font color="#E5E5E5"> local Sheikh and</font> recruited one of his sons<font color="#CCCCCC"> to show us the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">way</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> okay let's go</font> we learned of<font color="#E5E5E5"> this place from old papers</font> published<font color="#E5E5E5"> in obscure journals we came</font> here to<font color="#E5E5E5"> find proof of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the slaves</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that</font> Moses led to freedom<font color="#CCCCCC"> but even if</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we</font> found<font color="#E5E5E5"> evidence for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> presence of</font> slaves<font color="#E5E5E5"> how could we be sure that they</font> were Israel acts the Bible provides us with<font color="#E5E5E5"> two clues first the followers of</font> Moses did not<font color="#CCCCCC"> use hieroglyphic writing</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">like the Egyptians rather the biblical</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">tradition states that they used an early</font> form of<font color="#E5E5E5"> alphabetic writing also the</font> Israelites did not worship Egyptian gods <font color="#E5E5E5">but</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> single God that the Bible calls el</font> [Music] to support<font color="#E5E5E5"> our new biblical timeline we</font> needed to find alphabetic inscriptions carved by slaves<font color="#E5E5E5"> some 3,500 years ago in</font> our wildest<font color="#E5E5E5"> dreams</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> they would also</font> mention the biblical God el and sure <font color="#CCCCCC">enough there are slave inscriptions here</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and one of them records a 3500 year old</font> cry<font color="#CCCCCC"> L saved me this</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> is the writing</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a</font> slave a slave who worked in this<font color="#E5E5E5"> minor</font> to still see the<font color="#E5E5E5"> chisel marks which were</font> part of the forced<font color="#E5E5E5"> labor that author of</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> subscription was involved and he</font> wrote his<font color="#E5E5E5"> cry to God saying help me</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">don't forget me here where he worked and</font> he slept he probably died and it represents an<font color="#CCCCCC"> incredible moment</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in human</font> history<font color="#CCCCCC"> not only is</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the first</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">inscription that records the name of God</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">el but it also</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> records the oldest or</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">maybe the second oldest alphabetic</font> inscription<font color="#CCCCCC"> it's the basis which</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Hebrew</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Aramaic Greek Latin English Arabic</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> all</font> is based on<font color="#E5E5E5"> this writing</font> pretty incredible<font color="#CCCCCC"> and after all these</font> years<font color="#E5E5E5"> we would be</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> here to record</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> this</font> man's cry - Moses Stella<font color="#E5E5E5"> Beni</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Hassan</font> tomb paintings<font color="#CCCCCC"> Joseph's</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> royal seal and</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Israelite slavery inscriptions all</font> point<font color="#E5E5E5"> to approximately 1500</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> BCE as</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> date<font color="#CCCCCC"> for Moses and the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Exodus</font> if our<font color="#E5E5E5"> date is correct</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> then there's</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">something else that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we have</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to factor in</font> around 1500 BCE<font color="#E5E5E5"> people living along</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> Mediterranean experienced one of<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">most cataclysmic events in history</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> eruption of the santorini volcano<font color="#E5E5E5"> in</font> modern<font color="#E5E5E5"> greece this</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> eruption</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> may be</font> another<font color="#E5E5E5"> crucial clue for decoding the</font> biblical Exodus [Music] this is the<font color="#CCCCCC"> island</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of Santorini 700</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">kilometers from the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> egyptian coast</font> across<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> mediterranean it is literally</font> the mouth of a volcano<font color="#E5E5E5"> some 3,500 years</font> ago<font color="#CCCCCC"> santorini</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was destroyed by one of</font> the worst<font color="#CCCCCC"> volcanic eruptions</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in human</font> history<font color="#E5E5E5"> when it erupted the volcano</font> essentially brought to an end<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Minoan</font> civilization that once flourished here <font color="#E5E5E5">it sent an ash cloud that measured some</font> 40<font color="#E5E5E5"> kilometers straight up and 200</font> kilometers across<font color="#E5E5E5"> the sound of the</font> eruption circled the earth<font color="#CCCCCC"> some</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> 10 to 12</font> times<font color="#E5E5E5"> to put this in perspective</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> an</font> eruption like<font color="#CCCCCC"> senator reading would be</font> hundreds to thousands of<font color="#CCCCCC"> times stronger</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">more explosive than the atom bomb that</font> was dropped on Hiroshima<font color="#CCCCCC"> the energy of</font> that<font color="#CCCCCC"> eruption was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> so immense</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you would</font> have had these<font color="#CCCCCC"> huge explosions</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> were</font> happening<font color="#E5E5E5"> and you hear crack crack crack</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">for hundreds of kilometers people around</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">were listening to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it we were getting</font> earthquakes probably magnitude<font color="#E5E5E5"> three</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">four maybe even five or higher that were</font> happening<font color="#E5E5E5"> extremely rapidly and it would</font> have<font color="#E5E5E5"> been I'm</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> sure to the people living</font> there<font color="#E5E5E5"> as if the world was coming to an</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">end</font> so perhaps the cataclysmic<font color="#E5E5E5"> events</font> described in the Bible<font color="#CCCCCC"> such as plagues</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">darkness and the parting</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of a sea are</font> somehow<font color="#CCCCCC"> connected to the santorini</font> eruption<font color="#E5E5E5"> but like all</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> things related to</font> the<font color="#CCCCCC"> exodus</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> dating the santorini eruption</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">to 1500 BCE and be controversial</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> people</font> have been arguing<font color="#CCCCCC"> about the dates of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">santorini volcanologist and geologists</font> would date the eruption<font color="#E5E5E5"> in the 1600s</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> BC</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">archeologists tend to dated in the 1500s</font> been seen digging a Tavares<font color="#CCCCCC"> professor</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">b-pack has no doubt</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that he can pinpoint</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Santorini eruption to the exact time</font> period where we place the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Exodus here</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">boom is from the Santorini eruption</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">appears for the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> first time so from</font> archaeological<font color="#E5E5E5"> point of view it looks</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">very much as if the eruption</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> happens</font> early in<font color="#CCCCCC"> the 18th dynasty let us say</font> around 1500 BC <font color="#CCCCCC">Jakub</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Oh bitches chronology machine has</font> now<font color="#CCCCCC"> synchronized a pharaoh named ACMA's</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">a the Hyksos expulsion</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the Exodus and</font> the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Santorini eruption</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it appears that</font> the<font color="#CCCCCC"> exodus</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> code has finally been cracked</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">if</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Yakov ovitch is right we can now</font> explain the science underlying<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> biblical story we can even<font color="#CCCCCC"> explain what</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> caused the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">greatest miracle of them all the parting</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">of the Red Sea</font> we can then trace the<font color="#E5E5E5"> biblical map and</font> discover the real Mount Sinai<font color="#E5E5E5"> where the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Exodus story came to a climax</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> when Moses</font> received the Ten Commandments<font color="#E5E5E5"> and place</font> them in the<font color="#CCCCCC"> now Lost Ark of the Covenant</font> let's<font color="#E5E5E5"> begin with the plagues the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">biblical catastrophes</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that struck Egypt</font> because<font color="#E5E5E5"> Pharaoh wouldn't let the</font> Israelite<font color="#CCCCCC"> slaves go</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> until now no one</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> has</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">come up with a comprehensive scientific</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">explanation</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> for all ten plagues the</font> answer began to take shape for<font color="#CCCCCC"> us</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> after</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">we returned to the earth most Estela</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and discovered an amazing synchronicity</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">with the biblical</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> text the Bible says</font> that the God of Israel<font color="#CCCCCC"> passed judgment</font> on<font color="#E5E5E5"> the gods of Egypt</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> stella confirms that the statues</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">of the gods of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> egypt were toppled to the</font> ground earthquakes are known to accompany volcanic eruptions like<font color="#E5E5E5"> Santorini it</font> seems that the Stella<font color="#E5E5E5"> and the Bible are</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">describing the results of an earthquake</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">or more precisely what scientists</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> now</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">call an earthquake storm earthquake</font> storms are sequences<font color="#CCCCCC"> of large</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">earthquakes that sweep across</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a large</font> areas and the best examples<font color="#E5E5E5"> are the</font> eastern Mediterranean where we have<font color="#E5E5E5"> long</font> historical<font color="#E5E5E5"> and archaeological records as</font> it turns out the biblical story takes <font color="#CCCCCC">place</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in an</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> earthquake zone</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the Nile</font> Delta<font color="#E5E5E5"> where</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the Bible</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> says the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> exodus</font> took place is criss-crossed by fault lines to the east<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Great Rift fault</font> separating<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Asian and African plates</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">runs through the Sea of Galilee the Dead</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Sea and the Red Sea</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> all the way to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Africa in addition there</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> is a fault line</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> runs along the modern Suez Canal</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and another fault line that runs</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> along</font> the Nile<font color="#CCCCCC"> Delta under ancient</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Aris</font> meanwhile some<font color="#E5E5E5"> 700 kilometers to the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">west</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the rift between the African plate</font> and the<font color="#E5E5E5"> European plate runs practically</font> under<font color="#E5E5E5"> Santorini</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">but what do earthquakes have to do with</font> the biblical<font color="#CCCCCC"> plagues</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> well let's begin</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">with the first plague earthquakes can't</font> possibly explain how Moses<font color="#E5E5E5"> turned the</font> Niles waters into blood<font color="#E5E5E5"> can they in fact</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">they can when they</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> trigger</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> gas leaks and</font> we don't have<font color="#E5E5E5"> to go back</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> 3,500 years</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font> prove the<font color="#CCCCCC"> point in 1984 at Lake Manu</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> in 1986 at Lake<font color="#E5E5E5"> Neos both in Cameroon</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> sweet Clear Lake waters</font> suddenly<font color="#E5E5E5"> turned blood-red the mystery</font> was solved when Professor George clink explained the phenomenon<font color="#E5E5E5"> in terms of an</font> underground<font color="#E5E5E5"> gas leak what was happening</font> was that the<font color="#E5E5E5"> bottom waters contain very</font> high concentrations of iron<font color="#E5E5E5"> dissolved</font> iron and when that was<font color="#E5E5E5"> mixed up to the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">surface when the gas</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was released</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it</font> contacted oxygen and it formed an iron hydroxide essentially rust the same thing that happens on cars<font color="#E5E5E5"> and that rust</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">was what caused the reddish brownish</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">colour</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> at the surface of the lake</font> when it comes to the biblical<font color="#CCCCCC"> plagues</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">along the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Nile Delta there</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> there are</font> many elements<font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> are present</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that that</font> could suggest a buildup of gas<font color="#CCCCCC"> so we</font> could have a situation<font color="#E5E5E5"> where gas beneath</font> the<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> earth is trapped in pockets and</font> earthquakes<font color="#E5E5E5"> along the fault line then</font> release that<font color="#CCCCCC"> gas</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and depending on the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">kind of water that that gas goes through</font> it could even turn that water red if the <font color="#E5E5E5">Nile turned blood-red as a result of a</font> gas<font color="#E5E5E5"> leak then the chain of events</font> described in the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Bible</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> would have</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> been</font> set into<font color="#CCCCCC"> motion</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> first thing that</font> happens in such circumstances<font color="#E5E5E5"> is that</font> the water becomes devoid of<font color="#CCCCCC"> oxygen and</font> all living<font color="#E5E5E5"> things in it die the fish</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">then begin to float in the polluted</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">waters rotting in the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Sun the only</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">things that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> do not die are frogs unlike</font> fish<font color="#CCCCCC"> they can hop out</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> as it turns</font> out biblical plague number<font color="#CCCCCC"> 2 is a frog</font> infestation the lack of clean water<font color="#CCCCCC"> then leads to</font> lice slides and bacterial epidemics among humans<font color="#CCCCCC"> and domestic animals not</font> surprisingly biblical plague number <font color="#E5E5E5">three is lice plate number four his</font> flies plague number<font color="#E5E5E5"> five is an epidemic</font> plague<font color="#CCCCCC"> six boils and blisters</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> man and</font> beast can an earthquake induced gas leak <font color="#E5E5E5">explain this kind of outbreak let's go</font> back to the 1986 disaster<font color="#CCCCCC"> at Lake Neos</font> Cameroon at the time<font color="#E5E5E5"> people living along</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> lake</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> developed strange boils and</font> burns<font color="#E5E5E5"> it turns out that carbon dioxide</font> mixed with air put people into a kind of coma<font color="#E5E5E5"> reducing circulation to the skin</font> and causing the kind<font color="#E5E5E5"> of boils described</font> in the Bible as<font color="#CCCCCC"> plague number six</font> despite the first<font color="#E5E5E5"> six plagues</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the Bible</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">records that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Pharaoh still</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> refused to</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">let the Israelite slaves go</font> so Egypt was now struck by plague number <font color="#CCCCCC">seven hail</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and it was a very unusual</font> hail involving<font color="#E5E5E5"> ice and fire mixed</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">together to this day</font> rabbis teach that the biblical description is no metaphor<font color="#CCCCCC"> 7 plague was</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> plague of hail</font> but the Bible describes<font color="#CCCCCC"> hail in a very</font> unique manner<font color="#E5E5E5"> the hail was together with</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">ash with fire the idea being that the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">fire and the ice commingled together</font> they coexisted together<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Bible then</font> describes God is making<font color="#CCCCCC"> a miracle within</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">a miracle</font> taking opposites in nature and having them coexist together incredibly<font color="#E5E5E5"> there</font> is an Egyptian papyrus that<font color="#E5E5E5"> tells the</font> exact same story it's called the Apple our<font color="#E5E5E5"> Pope iris and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it's dated by many</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">scholars to the Hyksos period the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> abour</font> our<font color="#E5E5E5"> papaya specifically states that</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">egypt was struck by a strange Gale made</font> up of ice and<font color="#E5E5E5"> fire</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> mingled together</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">another piece of the puzzle</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> has fallen</font> into<font color="#E5E5E5"> place it now seems clear that the</font> biblical and Egyptian texts are describing<font color="#E5E5E5"> what scientists call</font> accretionary<font color="#CCCCCC"> la peeling</font> volcanic hail that could only have<font color="#CCCCCC"> come</font> from<font color="#E5E5E5"> the earthquake induced</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> santorini</font> volcano<font color="#E5E5E5"> when the ash cloud goes up to</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">two great distances in the stratosphere</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">essentially what happens is you have</font> moisture<font color="#E5E5E5"> in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the atmosphere you also have</font> a lot of<font color="#E5E5E5"> water vapor in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the cloud itself</font> so the small fragments of<font color="#CCCCCC"> ash and</font> crystals<font color="#CCCCCC"> actually form a nucleus</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">something</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> very similar to a hailstorm in</font> other words<font color="#E5E5E5"> Egypt experienced fire and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">ice raining from above just as the Bible</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">describes</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it seems that earthquakes and</font> the resulting volcanic and gas eruptions <font color="#E5E5E5">neatly explained the first seven</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">biblical plagues they also explained</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">plague number eight locusts</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">locus migrating swarms there can be</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">between 40 and 80 million adult locusts</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">in each square kilometer</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">cold weather produces a drop in their</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">body temperature and makes them land</font> unmask the volcanic hail and the<font color="#CCCCCC"> weather</font> disruptions caused by the Santorini eruption would have forced great clouds of locusts<font color="#E5E5E5"> which are common in this part</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">of the world to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> suddenly land in Egypt</font> as the hailstorm<font color="#CCCCCC"> clear and the</font> temperature rose<font color="#E5E5E5"> so did the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> locusts</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">exactly as the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> biblical account</font> describes<font color="#E5E5E5"> gripped by earthquake storms</font> and<font color="#E5E5E5"> their consequences</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Egyptians who are</font> now going<font color="#CCCCCC"> to experience the last phase</font> of the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Santorini eruption or what the</font> Bible calls plague number<font color="#CCCCCC"> nine</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">darkness</font> this is the way it probably<font color="#E5E5E5"> worked</font> during<font color="#CCCCCC"> the months before</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the eruption</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">seismic activity in the whole eastern</font> Mediterranean<font color="#E5E5E5"> was causing the African</font> plate<font color="#E5E5E5"> to grind</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> under the European plate</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">seawater was then turned to steam that</font> bubbled up through the magma this in <font color="#E5E5E5">turn caused pressure to build and erupt</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">through weak points</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in the surface</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">triggering several small eruptions</font> leading to a major<font color="#E5E5E5"> blowout and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the final</font> eruption came it created an ash cloud <font color="#E5E5E5">almost 40 kilometers from top to bottom</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and 200 kilometers across when the ash</font> clouds<font color="#E5E5E5"> reached the Nile</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Delta</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it</font> engulfed the Egyptians<font color="#E5E5E5"> in what the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Bible</font> calls a<font color="#E5E5E5"> palpable darkness in a matter of</font> a few minutes<font color="#CCCCCC"> there plunged into a black</font> world<font color="#E5E5E5"> ash is falling around them they</font> can't<font color="#E5E5E5"> see they can't breathe very well</font> Sun has disappeared<font color="#E5E5E5"> you have black</font> overhead<font color="#E5E5E5"> and they have no idea what's</font> gonna happen<font color="#E5E5E5"> next</font> the discovery of<font color="#E5E5E5"> Santorini</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> pomace a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Tavares seems to prove the arrival of</font> the ash cloud in Egypt and explains<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> biblical description of a<font color="#E5E5E5"> prolonged</font> darkness some might argue<font color="#E5E5E5"> that since</font> pumice can float<font color="#E5E5E5"> it could have been</font> brought<font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Egypt by waves</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and washed</font> ashore by tides<font color="#CCCCCC"> so we caught up with</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Professor Jean Daniel Stanley of the</font> Smithsonian Institute<font color="#E5E5E5"> he's made the</font> definitive discovery<font color="#E5E5E5"> he found santorini</font> ash in<font color="#CCCCCC"> the nile delta it could only have</font> arrived in the ash cloud that<font color="#E5E5E5"> plunged</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">egypt into the biblical darkness</font> we had to look through<font color="#E5E5E5"> 10 to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> 20,000</font> grains to find one<font color="#CCCCCC"> hash green so we</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">found a total of 40 hash grains not all</font> ash looks the same<font color="#CCCCCC"> ash as a fingerprint</font> aspect the ash particles that we find in the northern in northeastern now Delta or individual grains<font color="#E5E5E5"> that came in from</font> Santorini<font color="#E5E5E5"> there's very little room for</font> doubt that the exodus<font color="#E5E5E5"> account and the</font> descriptions<font color="#CCCCCC"> that we have in Egypt</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of</font> this the<font color="#E5E5E5"> volcanic dust coming</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> into Egypt</font> and geological description where we can actually see feel touch<font color="#E5E5E5"> and date the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">daily volcanic dust in the Nile that</font> they are describing the<font color="#CCCCCC"> same tremendous</font> volcanic event the final plague<font color="#E5E5E5"> took</font> place at midnight<font color="#E5E5E5"> after Moses ordered</font> the Israelites<font color="#E5E5E5"> to sit down to what</font> became known<font color="#E5E5E5"> as</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> first Passover meal</font> while the Israelites were involved in the<font color="#E5E5E5"> Passover ritual</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the Egyptians slept</font> and then it happened every firstborn male<font color="#E5E5E5"> Egyptian died every</font> house was affected no one has ever<font color="#E5E5E5"> been</font> able<font color="#CCCCCC"> to offer a plausible scientific</font> explanation for the<font color="#E5E5E5"> death of the</font> firstborn<font color="#E5E5E5"> until now according</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to our</font> scenario<font color="#CCCCCC"> at this point in the sequence</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">of events</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that began some</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> six months</font> earlier<font color="#CCCCCC"> the gas</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> leaks</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that set the chain</font> of plagues<font color="#CCCCCC"> in motion</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> would have finally</font> erupted<font color="#E5E5E5"> carbon dioxide would have seeped</font> to the surface and being heavier than air<font color="#E5E5E5"> would have killed the animals and</font> sleeping people<font color="#E5E5E5"> before it dissipated</font> harmlessly<font color="#E5E5E5"> into</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the atmosphere in case</font> you think all this<font color="#CCCCCC"> is conjecture</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">consider this it happened in exactly the</font> same<font color="#CCCCCC"> way in 1986 at Lake</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Neos Cameroon</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">on the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> fateful night of August 21st the</font> villagers at Neos went to sleep<font color="#E5E5E5"> they</font> couldn't have<font color="#CCCCCC"> known</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that the carbon</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">dioxide gas which had turned the lake</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">blood-red was now reaching a critical</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">point as the people of Lake neo slept</font> the top of the lake was keeping the carbon<font color="#CCCCCC"> down like a cap on</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a pop bottle</font> but then the earth rumbled<font color="#E5E5E5"> and a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">landslide took place sending rock into</font> the<font color="#CCCCCC"> water</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> disturbing</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the surface</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">pressure and releasing the gas the gas</font> then rose to<font color="#CCCCCC"> the surface and like some</font> alien monster<font color="#E5E5E5"> emerged from the water</font> droplets forming on it turning the invisible gas into a<font color="#E5E5E5"> visible</font> fog the fog then rolled across<font color="#E5E5E5"> the water</font> and<font color="#E5E5E5"> across the land</font> suffocating everything in its path<font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> as suddenly<font color="#E5E5E5"> as it</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> appeared</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it</font> disappeared dissolving harmlessly into the atmosphere<font color="#E5E5E5"> the next day those who</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> had</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">been sleeping</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> on higher ground woke up</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">to find some</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> 1800 people dead hundreds</font> of cattle and small animals<font color="#E5E5E5"> also</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> dead</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">all around there was deathly silence I</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">was eating just sitting among</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the dead</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">people inside</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they have some of they</font> were outside animals<font color="#E5E5E5"> everywhere</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> lying</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">house dogs everything all the family we</font> were 56 but<font color="#CCCCCC"> 53 died</font> after the death of the firstborn<font color="#CCCCCC"> barrel</font> finally relented<font color="#E5E5E5"> letting</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Moses</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> take his</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">people out of Egypt according</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Bible what made Pharaoh give up was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> selectivity<font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the death the fact that</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">he</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> only male firstborn</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> who died it</font> was this selectivity<font color="#CCCCCC"> that demonstrated</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">to him that God himself was involved how</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">can we account for this well</font> Egyptian firstborn males had a privileged position they were the heirs to<font color="#CCCCCC"> the throne to property title and more</font> they slept on Egyptian beds<font color="#CCCCCC"> low to the</font> ground while their<font color="#E5E5E5"> brothers and sisters</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">slept</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> on rooftops sheds and in wagons</font> the Israelites sitting up at their<font color="#E5E5E5"> first</font> Passover<font color="#E5E5E5"> meal did not feel a thing</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> while</font> the low<font color="#CCCCCC"> travelling gas suffocated the</font> privileged<font color="#E5E5E5"> Egyptian males sleeping in</font> their beds this conclusion<font color="#CCCCCC"> is backed by the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">archeology at Avaris</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> professor manfred</font> bietak<font color="#E5E5E5"> has found mass graves dating to</font> before and during<font color="#CCCCCC"> our date for the</font> Exodus the earlier graves are classic<font color="#CCCCCC"> examples</font> of ancient epidemics that<font color="#CCCCCC"> killed men</font> women and<font color="#E5E5E5"> children but at the time of</font> the<font color="#CCCCCC"> exodus the mass grave he found has</font> only males in it here you see bones<font color="#E5E5E5"> of burials from the</font> early<font color="#CCCCCC"> 18th dynasty they</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> are all male</font> victims by the size<font color="#E5E5E5"> of the graves</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the number of the individuals</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in the</font> graves within people<font color="#E5E5E5"> bite in rapid</font> succession<font color="#CCCCCC"> and the individuals were just</font> thrown into the pit some of them lying on their stomachs<font color="#E5E5E5"> I'm</font> lying on<font color="#E5E5E5"> their side</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> some of the pits</font> were just<font color="#E5E5E5"> 20 centimeters deep and just</font> some dust<font color="#E5E5E5"> put on top of them</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the Bible says that Pharaoh's son also</font> died<font color="#E5E5E5"> during the plague of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the firstborn</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">since we claim that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a Hamas a is the</font> Pharaoh of<font color="#CCCCCC"> the exodus</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we should be able</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">to prove that a Moses son died young</font> searching in the Cairo Museum<font color="#CCCCCC"> he's right</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">over</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> there on the shelf there we found</font> osmosis<font color="#E5E5E5"> son the prince had died young he</font> was only 12 for the first time ever<font color="#E5E5E5"> we</font> can put a face and a<font color="#CCCCCC"> name</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to a victim of</font> the biblical<font color="#CCCCCC"> plagues</font> [Music] seems that<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Bible geology and</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">archeology</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> are all telling the same</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">story</font> but skeptics who would like<font color="#CCCCCC"> to regard</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> exodus as myth might resist the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> idea</font> that<font color="#E5E5E5"> it</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> actually happened because this</font> would imply that God<font color="#E5E5E5"> does indeed exist</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">believers on the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> other hand may feel</font> that<font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> scientific</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> explanation of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> biblical<font color="#E5E5E5"> story takes God out of the</font> equation [Music] <font color="#E5E5E5">but in the book of Exodus</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> God does</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> not</font> suspend nature<font color="#E5E5E5"> he manipulates it</font> [Music] in other words<font color="#CCCCCC"> according to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the Bible we</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">should be able</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to understand the science</font> behind<font color="#E5E5E5"> the miracles and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the greatest</font> miracle of them all was<font color="#E5E5E5"> the parting of</font> the sea after<font color="#CCCCCC"> the death of the Egyptian</font> firstborn males<font color="#E5E5E5"> Pharaoh</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> let</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> Israelites go he then changed his mind <font color="#E5E5E5">and pursued them finding them trapped on</font> the shores of a seat<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Hebrew text</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">calls the sea</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> YUM Sufi</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and it was here</font> where<font color="#E5E5E5"> the miracle occurred</font> the sea parted<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Israelites crossed to</font> safety<font color="#CCCCCC"> and then the waters came back</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">swallowing the entire Egyptian army</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">overturning chariots drowning</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> all the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">horses and soldiers</font> [Music] <font color="#E5E5E5">for years explorers have searched for</font> evidence<font color="#E5E5E5"> of the miracle</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the parting</font> of<font color="#CCCCCC"> the sea</font> [Music] they've mounted<font color="#E5E5E5"> underwater</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">archaeological quests looking for</font> ancient chariots<font color="#E5E5E5"> swords and any evidence</font> of drowned Egyptian armies there is a theory<font color="#E5E5E5"> that a huge subsurface</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">shelf in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the Red Sea</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> could have been</font> exposed for<font color="#CCCCCC"> a short time</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> during</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">powerful storm providing a land bridge</font> for the Israelites to<font color="#E5E5E5"> cross</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">if the search has always been</font> unsuccessful<font color="#E5E5E5"> who would have thought that</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">instead of diving</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> should have been</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">driving</font> that's because<font color="#CCCCCC"> young-sook</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Hebrew for the</font> place where Moses parted the waters<font color="#E5E5E5"> has</font> for years been mistranslated<font color="#E5E5E5"> as Red Sea</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">when in fact the correct</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> translation is</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Reed seed and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> reeds grow in Sweetwater</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">not salt water in lakes not oceans we</font> should have been looking<font color="#E5E5E5"> for a lake but</font> which<font color="#E5E5E5"> lake is the Bible referring to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">when it describes the parting of the Red</font> Sea<font color="#CCCCCC"> it goes like this</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Oh</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> like like I almost like a figure</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> 8</font> it's using our dates for<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Exodus</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">tracked</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> down an ancient artifact that</font> records<font color="#E5E5E5"> the precise location of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> yong-su</font> it also provides us<font color="#CCCCCC"> with the first</font> archaeological<font color="#E5E5E5"> evidence for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the parting</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">of the sea</font> we found a hieroglyphic inscription<font color="#CCCCCC"> on</font> the granite monument<font color="#CCCCCC"> that tells the</font> entire story of<font color="#E5E5E5"> the exodus from</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Pharaoh's point of view the Bible calls</font> Moses<font color="#E5E5E5"> a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> king on this stone</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Moses is called the Prince of the desert</font> the Bible<font color="#CCCCCC"> caused</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the Israelites God's</font> people the granite calls them<font color="#CCCCCC"> the evil</font> ones and then the granite corroborates the miracle of<font color="#E5E5E5"> the parting of the sea</font> the symbol can be<font color="#E5E5E5"> read by anyone three</font> waves<font color="#E5E5E5"> and two knives</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the part at sea</font> the three water<font color="#E5E5E5"> signs one on top of the</font> other<font color="#E5E5E5"> is typically used to apply to</font> different<font color="#CCCCCC"> types of bodies of water</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">comply to the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Nile comply to a marsh</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">apply to the sea but what is not so</font> common is when<font color="#E5E5E5"> you have that word in</font> combination with these<font color="#E5E5E5"> two knives the</font> fact<font color="#CCCCCC"> that you have these two knives</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">associated with it would suggest that</font> this<font color="#E5E5E5"> is water that is cut water that is</font> that is divided<font color="#E5E5E5"> this might be an</font> allusion to the<font color="#CCCCCC"> waters that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the Red Sea</font> or<font color="#E5E5E5"> the reed sea were divided in X's</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">chapter 14</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I want to examine</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the text</font> better we got a pressing of<font color="#E5E5E5"> the hieroglyphic</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and as it turns out the Egyptian text</font> doesn't<font color="#E5E5E5"> just mention the parting of the</font> sea<font color="#CCCCCC"> when you see the two knives it also</font> mentions a specific location<font color="#E5E5E5"> next to</font> where the sea parted the place is called <font color="#CCCCCC">P</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> karate and today archaeologists know</font> exactly where it was<font color="#E5E5E5"> enabling us to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">locate young soothe the place where the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Bible states</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the sea parted the</font> Israelites crossed to safety and<font color="#E5E5E5"> human</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">history was changed forever</font> [Music] as an ancient<font color="#E5E5E5"> lake that survived until</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the 1850s when the Suez Canal was put in</font> this<font color="#E5E5E5"> ancient lake finally died</font> [Music] professor mantra be talk<font color="#E5E5E5"> after</font> conducting<font color="#CCCCCC"> thorough study of this this</font> area<font color="#E5E5E5"> proposed that this lake was known</font> to the Egyptians as<font color="#E5E5E5"> Pato fee the the</font> marshland<font color="#E5E5E5"> the marshy sea and the word</font> tooth<font color="#E5E5E5"> Egyptian word for reeds is the</font> same word as sooth in Hebrew so that <font color="#CCCCCC">Yama tzuf he suggested was a name</font> derived<font color="#E5E5E5"> from this body of water now</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it's</font> called<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Alba</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> lifelike</font> [Music] under the ever<font color="#E5E5E5"> watchful eye of the</font> Egyptian<font color="#CCCCCC"> authorities who traveled</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font> Lake<font color="#CCCCCC"> Alabama the exact spot were one of</font> the greatest<font color="#CCCCCC"> biblical miracles is</font> supposed<font color="#E5E5E5"> to have taken place the salt</font> beds and<font color="#CCCCCC"> reeds testified</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to the fact</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">that at one time</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the salty waters of the</font> Mediterranean<font color="#CCCCCC"> and the sweet waters of</font> Lake<font color="#E5E5E5"> el Balah intermingled here</font> behind me<font color="#CCCCCC"> is what's left of Lake Bella</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">you can see the salt marshes</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> you can see</font> the reeds<font color="#E5E5E5"> this whole entire area was one</font> big lake or sea but because of the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Suez</font> Canal<font color="#CCCCCC"> today you can literally walk or</font> drive through<font color="#CCCCCC"> the sea</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of reeds one of</font> the problems most people have today<font color="#CCCCCC"> is</font> they pull out<font color="#E5E5E5"> a map and they try to find</font> out where were these places<font color="#E5E5E5"> that the</font> Bible is<font color="#CCCCCC"> talking about</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but you can't use</font> a<font color="#CCCCCC"> modern-day map you have to use a map</font> that<font color="#CCCCCC"> three thousand years older and we</font> are working on this by taking satellite images where we<font color="#CCCCCC"> can actually see the</font> depressions from<font color="#E5E5E5"> ancient</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Lakes and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> so we</font> can actually<font color="#E5E5E5"> begin</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to understand what</font> the northeastern Delta of Egypt<font color="#E5E5E5"> was like</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">3,500 years ago identifying the precise</font> location of<font color="#CCCCCC"> young tzuf</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> means that we can</font> finally explain the<font color="#E5E5E5"> miracle of the</font> parting of<font color="#CCCCCC"> the sea</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> this satellite photo</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">clearly demonstrates that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> lake el Balah</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">is close to the edge of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the Nile</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Delta</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">where</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> silt accumulates and collapses</font> from<font color="#E5E5E5"> time to time as Pharaoh chased the</font> Israelites<font color="#E5E5E5"> to the shores of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Lake el</font> Balah<font color="#E5E5E5"> the extreme seismic activity that</font> caused the<font color="#CCCCCC"> ten plagues</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> santorini</font> eruption would have now caused the<font color="#CCCCCC"> delta</font> to start sliding<font color="#E5E5E5"> into</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> eastern</font> Mediterranean and there's millions<font color="#E5E5E5"> of tons of soil</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">moved forward</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the edge of the African</font> plate<font color="#E5E5E5"> which had now been released from</font> its burden must have<font color="#CCCCCC"> risen between 1 & 1 &</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a half</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">meters in other words the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> sea parted</font> water would<font color="#E5E5E5"> have cascaded</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> from higher</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">ground</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to lower ground and drained from</font> pools and sinkholes<font color="#E5E5E5"> creating dry land</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">for</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the Israelites to cross</font> at this point further seismic activity <font color="#E5E5E5">or another collapse of the Delta would</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">have sent a major tsunami crashing</font> against<font color="#E5E5E5"> the coast we get some glimpse of</font> these<font color="#E5E5E5"> tidal waves in Turkey where they</font> caught<font color="#E5E5E5"> their channeled scablands</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> 30</font> miles inland and in order to<font color="#E5E5E5"> do that at</font> the shore it would have had<font color="#CCCCCC"> to be more</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">than</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> half as high these</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> waves as the</font> Empire State Building<font color="#CCCCCC"> and that's</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> exactly</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the description that we do have in the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Bible</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> if the tsunami went a mere</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> twelfth</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">kilometers inland</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it would have reached</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">like el Balah</font> and engulfed<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Egyptian army by this</font> point<font color="#E5E5E5"> according</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the Bible the</font> Israelites had advanced beyond the reach of the waves as it turns out<font color="#E5E5E5"> some of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> people that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">followed Moses across the part at sea</font> and later to Mount Sinai<font color="#CCCCCC"> did not follow</font> him to<font color="#E5E5E5"> the promised land</font> they boarded ships and sailed in an unknown<font color="#E5E5E5"> exodus to Greece why hasn't</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">anyone noticed</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> because no one thought to</font> look in Greece for<font color="#CCCCCC"> evidence of an event</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that happened in Egypt</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in fact</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> until</font> recently<font color="#E5E5E5"> there was very little</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">archaeological evidence</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of contact</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">between the Minoan civilization of</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">ancient Greece and Egypt at the time of</font> Moses all that changed with<font color="#E5E5E5"> two great</font> discoveries the first was in 1972 when digging under the ash at Santorini <font color="#CCCCCC">archaeologists made a startling</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">discovery linking this area of the world</font> with the Exodus they found unusual<font color="#E5E5E5"> Minoan style wall</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">paintings incredibly among them there</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> is</font> a map depicting an ancient journey from <font color="#CCCCCC">Egypt to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> grief</font> the whole<font color="#E5E5E5"> scene may be considered as the</font> earliest<font color="#E5E5E5"> the oldest map in the world the</font> map is breathtaking<font color="#E5E5E5"> the colors as</font> vibrant<font color="#CCCCCC"> today as 3500</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> years ago it</font> depicts an epic journey<font color="#E5E5E5"> from Egypt</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> Santorini<font color="#E5E5E5"> the voyage is complete with a</font> terrible storm at sea working even <font color="#CCCCCC">further back</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we see that the ancient</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">sailors sailed past Egyptian fauna and</font> palm<font color="#E5E5E5"> trees in the Nile Delta</font> the map then follows the<font color="#CCCCCC"> river inland</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and ends up in a magical</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> city on a kind</font> of<font color="#CCCCCC"> river bound</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> island this mysterious</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">city is surrounded by</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> high walls with</font> multi-storied houses<font color="#E5E5E5"> elegant ladies</font> peering<font color="#E5E5E5"> from the rooftops and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a rich</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">harbour at the time</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> there was only one</font> port in Egypt<font color="#E5E5E5"> that fits the city in the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">map</font> the fabled<font color="#CCCCCC"> avars until late in the 20th</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">century</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> there was no</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> archaeological</font> proof of<font color="#CCCCCC"> contact between a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> virus and the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Minoans of santorini then in 1992</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">perfectly preserved Minoan paintings</font> were discovered<font color="#CCCCCC"> at</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Avaris</font> proving that in biblical times<font color="#CCCCCC"> this city</font> was populated<font color="#E5E5E5"> not only by Israelites but</font> also by<font color="#CCCCCC"> people from</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> ancient Greece most</font> people do<font color="#CCCCCC"> not realize that there</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was not</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">only contact between the Minoan world</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and the Egyptians it was very intense</font> contact eye<font color="#CCCCCC"> contact and trade contacting</font> ideas we<font color="#E5E5E5"> had the Egyptians referring to</font> the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Minoans as the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> only other</font> civilization that they consider <font color="#E5E5E5">civilized</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it was not a military</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> presence</font> in Egypt<font color="#CCCCCC"> it was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> actually a trade</font> presence so we now<font color="#E5E5E5"> know that there was an</font> intimate contact between Greece and <font color="#CCCCCC">Egypt at the time of the exodus</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> as a</font> result<font color="#E5E5E5"> it's perfectly reasonable</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> assume<font color="#E5E5E5"> that some of the followers</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font> Moses came from the<font color="#E5E5E5"> area of ancient</font> Greece and it's quite<font color="#CCCCCC"> possible that some</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">of these people returned to Greece</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> after</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the exodus the Bible says that Moses and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">his followers left Egypt with great</font> quantities<font color="#CCCCCC"> of swords</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and Egyptian gold</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">3,500 years</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> after the fact</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> is there any</font> chance<font color="#E5E5E5"> of finding Israelite swords and</font> Egypt's golden treasures<font color="#E5E5E5"> in Greece</font> this is<font color="#E5E5E5"> Mycenae 50 kilometers</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> from the</font> coast<font color="#E5E5E5"> on the Greek mainland in 1876</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">famous archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the excavator of Troy made a</font> world-shaking discovery<font color="#E5E5E5"> at</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Mycenae here</font> he found 3500 year old tombs the tombs are incredible with long shafts<font color="#E5E5E5"> leading</font> to vaulted ceilings they were built in <font color="#E5E5E5">the shadow of a mountain that has the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">shape of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a pyramid</font> surprisingly they contained a treasure <font color="#E5E5E5">trove</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of swords</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and Egyptian gold</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Sleiman believed that the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> goal belonged</font> to homers Agamemnon who led the war against Troy for<font color="#E5E5E5"> the sake of the</font> beautiful<font color="#CCCCCC"> Helen but scholars soon</font> discovered that<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> people who were</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">buried in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the tombs</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> lived about</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> three</font> hundred years before<font color="#E5E5E5"> Agamemnon they</font> lived around 1500 BCE is it possible that here lie<font color="#E5E5E5"> some of the followers of</font> Moses the answer is on the tombstones <font color="#CCCCCC">that we now know were placed</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> on top of</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the death chambers the meaning</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of the</font> images on<font color="#CCCCCC"> the gravestones</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> has never been</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">deciphered until now</font> [Music] <font color="#CCCCCC">she asks callers what is it I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> said well</font> it looks<font color="#CCCCCC"> like a hunt</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but there's no</font> animal or it looks<font color="#CCCCCC"> like a battle</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but</font> there's no two people fighting let's look at it<font color="#E5E5E5"> and let's see when in fact do</font> the grave<font color="#E5E5E5"> stelae of Mycenae actually</font> testify<font color="#E5E5E5"> to if we just</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> look at it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> very</font> simply<font color="#CCCCCC"> without any prejudice</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and without</font> any preconceptions<font color="#CCCCCC"> I almost want to</font> whisper<font color="#CCCCCC"> some kind of secret because</font> nobody realizes that they have a<font color="#CCCCCC"> seventy</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">five hundred</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> year old movie if</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you will</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">three frames of the parting of the sea</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they don't know they don't know it</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">but look at it just look</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> at it it's so</font> clear<font color="#E5E5E5"> frame number one you see</font> waves on<font color="#CCCCCC"> top and waves on the bottom you</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">actually literally</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> see the parting with</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">sea and this guy is on</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a chariot</font> chasing Moses<font color="#E5E5E5"> who's holding a staff</font> that's<font color="#E5E5E5"> frame number one and right over</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">here</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> just half frame number two in the</font> movie<font color="#E5E5E5"> this</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the water is gathering</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> into</font> whirlpools<font color="#CCCCCC"> what's happened over here</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">everybody</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> thinks the man or the staff is</font> the loser but he's actually<font color="#E5E5E5"> turned</font> around he's turned<font color="#E5E5E5"> around he's facing</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">his enemy</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he's occupying higher ground</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and this guy is occupying</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Laura ground</font> and look there's a<font color="#CCCCCC"> walls</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of water coming</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and in the third frame which</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> is another</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Museum</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> even more hidden you see this</font> guy's being overturned<font color="#CCCCCC"> the water is</font> engulfing them the<font color="#E5E5E5"> horses are</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> up ended</font> and the story is complete but what do the experts say in this very<font color="#E5E5E5"> example the</font> options can be<font color="#E5E5E5"> mainly to either he</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> is a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">warrior in a battle scene and he's the</font> enemy<font color="#CCCCCC"> he's</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> chasing</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the enemy and the</font> enemy has<font color="#CCCCCC"> tried to escape holding his</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">wood and the second option</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> may be the</font> chariot<font color="#E5E5E5"> race scene so this guy is this</font> is kind of an ancient Olympics<font color="#CCCCCC"> disguise</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">unofficial</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and this guy is racing around</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">he is bearing</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a sport as</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> well</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and he's</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">holding a sport this doesn't look like</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">much of a sword looks more like a staff</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">to me</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> yes in this case it's an absolute</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the picture it's not a naturalistic</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">picture so we cannot say much</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> understand what's<font color="#CCCCCC"> going on</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> here</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> all</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> you</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">have to do is actually take this 3d</font> image which<font color="#CCCCCC"> has been flattened out</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> just pull<font color="#CCCCCC"> it out just pull it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> out and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">what you get is the biblical</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> story</font> [Music] when the three stellar<font color="#E5E5E5"> put together</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> what</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">we see exactly as depicted in the book</font> of Exodus<font color="#E5E5E5"> is an Egyptian</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> charioteer</font> chasing Moses across the part at sea <font color="#E5E5E5">then</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> moses</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> turns and faces his pursuer</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">walls of water rise and come down on</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">egyptians finally</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> rider</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> chariot and</font> horses are<font color="#E5E5E5"> drowned</font> here<font color="#E5E5E5"> we have literally carved in stone</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font> visual account of the biblical<font color="#CCCCCC"> tale</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">dating</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> back</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the very time of Moses</font> and<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Exodus</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> earthquake activity</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that led</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> crossing of the sea</font> would have now led<font color="#CCCCCC"> to oil and gas fires</font> in this oil<font color="#E5E5E5"> and gas rich area what Moses</font> and his<font color="#CCCCCC"> followers would have seen</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> just</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">like the Bible says is a pillar of smoke</font> by day and a pillar of<font color="#CCCCCC"> fire by night</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">beckoning them into the desert</font> so if we've interpreted<font color="#E5E5E5"> the evidence</font> correctly<font color="#E5E5E5"> and we are right about the</font> location of<font color="#E5E5E5"> the part at scene we can now</font> make sense of distances provided in the Bible<font color="#E5E5E5"> maybe we can even locate the</font> legendary Mount Sinai where<font color="#E5E5E5"> according</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> scripture God<font color="#CCCCCC"> revealed himself to Moses</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">many would argue</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that identifying Mount</font> Sinai would be<font color="#E5E5E5"> tantamount to</font> corroborating the biblical tale for thousands of years<font color="#CCCCCC"> adventurers have</font> attempted<font color="#E5E5E5"> to find the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> elusive mountain</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and they've always ended up in the wrong</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">place</font> the most popular<font color="#E5E5E5"> Mount Sinai</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> is at the</font> site of<font color="#E5E5E5"> a third century Christian</font> monastery [Music] it is a high mountain<font color="#CCCCCC"> in the south of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the peninsula</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and this is where the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">tourists flock there is only one problem</font> with<font color="#E5E5E5"> this site it doesn't fit a single</font> biblical criteria<font color="#CCCCCC"> it's well off the main</font> transana routes it's nowhere near<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Land of Israel where the Israelites were</font> headed<font color="#CCCCCC"> there is not a single</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> plateau</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that could have accommodated hundreds of</font> thousands of<font color="#E5E5E5"> Israelites and since the</font> land is made up of granite there's hardly any shrubbery to sustain flocks <font color="#E5E5E5">or water to sustain people</font> so where is the<font color="#CCCCCC"> mountain of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> God as they</font> followed Moses into the desert there were only four main routes the Israelites could have taken the northern the<font color="#E5E5E5"> southern and two central routes</font> the Bible<font color="#E5E5E5"> explicitly states</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that it</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">wasn't the northern route geography</font> rules out the<font color="#E5E5E5"> souther leaving only the</font> central<font color="#E5E5E5"> routes which</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> combine to form a</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">single road leading to the promised land</font> it's the only<font color="#CCCCCC"> road that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> is possible</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">because</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to the south of the road there</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">are</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> treacherous mountains and to the</font> north there<font color="#CCCCCC"> is arid desert sand dunes</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">this road is an ancient road</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> there are</font> water systems<font color="#E5E5E5"> all along it that was the</font> road on<font color="#CCCCCC"> which Moses would have fled for</font> his life<font color="#E5E5E5"> from Egypt and is the road that</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">he would have taken</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> back finally leading</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the Israelites</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> out to revelation on</font> Mount Sinai<font color="#CCCCCC"> the Bible provides us with</font> three coordinates from<font color="#E5E5E5"> Mount Sinai first</font> according<font color="#CCCCCC"> to the biblical itinerary</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Mount Sinai is a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> 14-day journey</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> from a</font> place called<font color="#CCCCCC"> le</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Alima</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> is now</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> easily</font> identified with a place<font color="#CCCCCC"> just</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> south of</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Lake el Balah called to this day</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> springs of Moses if a mass of<font color="#CCCCCC"> people can walk</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> no more</font> than<font color="#E5E5E5"> 15</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> kilometers a day</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we can now draw</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">an arc</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> from</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> le</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that takes us 210</font> kilometers<font color="#CCCCCC"> into</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the desert this gives us</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">our first coordinate</font> Exodus 3<font color="#CCCCCC"> 1</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> through</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> 2 states that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> God</font> first appeared to Moses<font color="#CCCCCC"> in a burning</font> bush<font color="#CCCCCC"> on Mount Sinai at the time</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Moses</font> was tending his<font color="#CCCCCC"> Midianite</font> father-in-law's flocks<font color="#E5E5E5"> Mount Sinai</font> therefore has<font color="#CCCCCC"> to be within flock grazing</font> distance<font color="#E5E5E5"> of Medina territory the problem</font> is<font color="#E5E5E5"> that the Midianites lived in Saudi</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Arabia not the Sinai Peninsula</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> except</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">for one place</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a place called Timna here</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">archaeologists found the remnants</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Midianite flocks and even Midianite wall</font> drawings if Moses was tending<font color="#E5E5E5"> Midianite</font> flocks<font color="#E5E5E5"> in the Sinai this is the only</font> place it could have capped and<font color="#E5E5E5"> based on</font> local flock<font color="#CCCCCC"> racing practices</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Mount Sinai</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">should be no more than 45 kilometres</font> from<font color="#CCCCCC"> Timna this gives us</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> our second</font> coordinate the final biblical coordinate in the search<font color="#E5E5E5"> for Mount Sinai</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> appears</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Deuteronomy</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> 1 2</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it states that the</font> mountain of God is an eleven-day journey from a place<font color="#CCCCCC"> called Kadesh Barnea today</font> almost all<font color="#E5E5E5"> archaeologists identified the</font> biblical Kadesh Barnea<font color="#CCCCCC"> with the oasis of</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Tel</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Kudarat</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in north central Sinai using</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">15</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> kilometres a day as</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> our measure we</font> can now<font color="#E5E5E5"> draw our last</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Ark into the</font> desert<font color="#CCCCCC"> a hundred and sixty-five</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">kilometers</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> from Kadesh Barnea leaving us</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">with a very tiny</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> area that conforms to</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">all the biblical coordinates nonetheless</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">even in this small area</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> there are many</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">mountains</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but there is a clue</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> may</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">help us zero</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in on the precise peak</font> the book of<font color="#E5E5E5"> Exodus calls Mount Sinai</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font> holy mountain<font color="#CCCCCC"> and holy mountains in the</font> desert are marked by ancient<font color="#E5E5E5"> open-air</font> rock sanctuaries yeah look like little excavation<font color="#CCCCCC"> that's</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> amazing in this area</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">there is only one mountain</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> surrounded by</font> sanctuaries today that mountain is called<font color="#CCCCCC"> jebel Hashem el tarif</font> very distinct<font color="#E5E5E5"> that second</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> teeth right</font> there although this entire<font color="#CCCCCC"> area is in the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">middle</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of a military zone we got</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to it</font> this mountain<font color="#E5E5E5"> perfectly fits all</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">criteria for</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Mount Sinai it is</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">surrounded by</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a huge</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> plateau</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that could</font> have accommodated hundreds of thousands of Israelites<font color="#E5E5E5"> it is</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> easily</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> accessible</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it</font> literally sits on the main transana <font color="#E5E5E5">highway which follows the topography of</font> the ancient route the mountain is not very high it's only <font color="#E5E5E5">about 200 meter above</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the plateau</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but it</font> is<font color="#E5E5E5"> very conspicuous</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you can see it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> from</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">distance</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and the unique point is that it</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">is surrounded by actually the largest</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">concentration of open-air sanctuaries</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">that we know today in the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> desert</font> if we are right<font color="#E5E5E5"> some 3,500 years ago</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Moses climbed this mountain and received</font> the Ten Commandments<font color="#CCCCCC"> on its</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> summit but</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">this is as far</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> as we're permitted to go</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">our professional camera crew sticks out</font> like a sore<font color="#CCCCCC"> thumb</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in a military</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> zone</font> the Egyptian<font color="#E5E5E5"> army forbids us</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to proceed</font> we cannot climb the mountain<font color="#CCCCCC"> to confirm</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">our theory that this is Sinai</font> but we<font color="#E5E5E5"> came back without a crew and</font> armed<font color="#E5E5E5"> with</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> only a small camera we</font> had to climb to the top<font color="#E5E5E5"> in search of</font> evidence<font color="#CCCCCC"> that this was the mountain</font> where Moses received the commandments from God <font color="#E5E5E5">but what would we</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> need to find to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> prove</font> that this asana<font color="#CCCCCC"> the Bible</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> states</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font> Mount<font color="#E5E5E5"> Sinai has several unique</font> characteristics<font color="#CCCCCC"> if</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> this is the mountain</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">it should have a large cleft in it</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font> natural podium or Moses stood and called <font color="#E5E5E5">out to his</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> people like all holy</font> mountains<font color="#CCCCCC"> it would have grave sites of</font> holy men<font color="#E5E5E5"> on its summit and there should</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">be evidence of a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> freshwater spring</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> on</font> top<font color="#E5E5E5"> of the mountain</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> an extremely</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> rare</font> characteristic that according to<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> Bible<font color="#CCCCCC"> sets sinai</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> apart from other</font> mountains in this desert when we<font color="#E5E5E5"> reach the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> top</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> find</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> everything</font> as it<font color="#CCCCCC"> should be the cleft</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> looking out to</font> a natural amphitheater from here<font color="#E5E5E5"> Moses's</font> voice<font color="#E5E5E5"> would have carried for miles</font> and here are the gravesites each one is a circle<font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> about fixed</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">meter in diameter</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and they are built in</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> shape of a platform</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> each one you</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> can</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">see the barrier cell in the barrier cell</font> nicely built and moved in rarest of all look<font color="#E5E5E5"> at this</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it is the white stuff</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it</font> appears there<font color="#CCCCCC"> was an</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> ancient spring at</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> top of the mountain this</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> is a travel</font> time which means an accumulation of calcium<font color="#E5E5E5"> under wet conditions that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">integral indicates</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> an ancient spring</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">finding</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in tour the math on top is quite</font> unusual<font color="#E5E5E5"> the remains of a real ancient</font> spring<font color="#E5E5E5"> yeah this is quite unique you</font> [Music] all the evidence points<font color="#E5E5E5"> to this mountain</font> is Mount Sinai<font color="#CCCCCC"> where according to the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Bible the words now inched in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the human</font> imagination<font color="#CCCCCC"> were first heard</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I am God</font> your God who brought<font color="#CCCCCC"> you out of Egypt</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">from the place of slavery thou shalt not</font> have any<font color="#E5E5E5"> other God before me</font> thou shalt not represent such gods by any carved statue or picture<font color="#E5E5E5"> do not take</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> name</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> God</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> your Lord in vain</font> remember the Sabbath<font color="#CCCCCC"> and keep it holy</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">honor your mother and father do not</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">commit murder do not commit adultery do</font> not steal do<font color="#CCCCCC"> not testify</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> is a false</font> witness<font color="#E5E5E5"> against</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> your neighbor</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and do not</font> be<font color="#CCCCCC"> envious of your neighbor's house and</font> do not<font color="#E5E5E5"> covet your neighbor's</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> wife</font> according<font color="#CCCCCC"> to the Bible Moses wrote the</font> Ten Commandments on stone<font color="#CCCCCC"> tablets and</font> placed them in a golden<font color="#CCCCCC"> box</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the Ark of</font> the Covenant he then<font color="#E5E5E5"> built a portable temple at the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">base</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the mountain</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a tabernacle is a</font> place to<font color="#CCCCCC"> worship the God of Israel</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> is a home<font color="#E5E5E5"> for the holy</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> art</font> the following model<font color="#E5E5E5"> of the holy</font> Tabernacle<font color="#E5E5E5"> has been created to the exact</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">specifications provided</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in the book of</font> Exodus at the time of<font color="#CCCCCC"> the exodus as you neared</font> the entrance<font color="#CCCCCC"> you would have come to a</font> screen<font color="#CCCCCC"> seven meters high</font> according to ancient Jewish<font color="#E5E5E5"> sources the</font> screen was decorated by<font color="#E5E5E5"> winged lions or</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Griffin's figures usually</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> associated</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">with ancient</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Greece only priests were</font> allowed inside the courtyard and here there was a four and<font color="#E5E5E5"> a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> half</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">meter high altar for sacrificial animals</font> in a daily ritual<font color="#CCCCCC"> priests carried</font> animals<font color="#E5E5E5"> up the ramp then the blood of</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> sacrifices anointed the horns of the</font> altar in the back<font color="#E5E5E5"> of the courtyard was the</font> tabernacle the house of<font color="#E5E5E5"> God</font> only Moses<font color="#E5E5E5"> his brother Aaron</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and Aaron's</font> sons entered it here beyond another tapestry embroidered with<font color="#CCCCCC"> Griffin's</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> were golden ritual</font> objects and in the back was the<font color="#CCCCCC"> holy of holies</font> in it<font color="#E5E5E5"> there was only one object the</font> ultimate<font color="#CCCCCC"> object</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the Ark of the Covenant</font> no one knows exactly<font color="#E5E5E5"> what the Ark of the</font> Covenant looked like the Bible<font color="#E5E5E5"> claims</font> that it<font color="#CCCCCC"> was designed</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> by God</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> himself</font> to house the<font color="#CCCCCC"> ten commandments</font> [Music] based on<font color="#E5E5E5"> descriptions in the book of</font> Exodus people have attempted to <font color="#CCCCCC">reconstruct it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> complete with gold</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> caring</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">posts</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the golden cover crowned by</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> birds</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">whichever way it looked</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> what is</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> clear is</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that it was an exquisite work of gold</font> the Bible says that a tribe called<font color="#CCCCCC"> Dan</font> helped to craft the golden Ark is it a coincidence<font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Homer</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> calls</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the people</font> buried<font color="#CCCCCC"> at</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Mycenae</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> dan</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> oi</font> perhaps among the golden<font color="#E5E5E5"> objects found</font> by<font color="#E5E5E5"> Schliemann at Mycenae there is an</font> image of<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Ark</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> made</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> by</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the same</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Danites but crafted the box that once</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">held the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Ten Commandments</font> incredibly among all the golden<font color="#E5E5E5"> objects</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">there is a piece</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of priestly jewelry</font> that goes unnoticed<font color="#CCCCCC"> and unheralded</font> so far experts have assumed<font color="#E5E5E5"> that this is</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> depiction of a single</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> object</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but we</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">believe that it's a 3500 year old image</font> of three legendary objects viewed head-on here we can clearly<font color="#E5E5E5"> see the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> holy altar</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the ramp of the tabernacle and the Ark</font> of<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Covenant</font> at last we know what the Ark of the Covenant<font color="#CCCCCC"> looked</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> like</font> [Music] more than that<font color="#E5E5E5"> we now know how the holy</font> objects appeared when seen from<font color="#CCCCCC"> the Holy</font> of Holies<font color="#CCCCCC"> looking out until now the only</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">person who would</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> have seen these objects</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">from this perspective is Moses</font> in the beginning of<font color="#E5E5E5"> this journey</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we</font> asked the<font color="#E5E5E5"> question is the biblical</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Exodus fact or fiction</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I think a</font> compelling case has<font color="#E5E5E5"> been made that the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Exodus is a historical</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> fact here we were</font> shown for the<font color="#CCCCCC"> first time</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> ancient</font> hieroglyphics and stone carvings depicting the parting<font color="#E5E5E5"> of the sea</font> we saw the biblical<font color="#E5E5E5"> plagues deciphered</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and the archaeological</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and geological</font> proof that they<font color="#CCCCCC"> actually occurred</font> we even trekked<font color="#E5E5E5"> to the real Mount Sinai</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and then Jakob ovitch revealed</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> what is</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">arguably the discovery of the millennium</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">a gold image</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of the Ark of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the Covenant</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">but I think we</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> must stand our journey as</font> we started with a question<font color="#E5E5E5"> did all this</font> happen as a<font color="#CCCCCC"> result</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of massive</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> geological</font> events triggered by nothing more than nature<font color="#E5E5E5"> or were the earthquakes the</font> volcanoes and the<font color="#E5E5E5"> tsunamis caused by</font> divine<font color="#CCCCCC"> intervention</font> when God decided to free a nation<font color="#E5E5E5"> from</font> slavery<font color="#E5E5E5"> and forge a new covenant with</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">humanity</font> [Music] [Music] [Music]
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Channel: Timeline - World History Documentaries
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Keywords: exodus decoded, the exodus decoded, history documentary, bible documentary, exodus documentary, timeline documentary, documentary history, documentary 2019, timeline exodus, history channel documentary, documentary 2018, biblical documentaries, moses documentary, the bible (religious text), biblical archaeology, christianity documentary, jesus christ, new testament, jesus christ (deity), holy bible, the bible, conspiracy theories
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Length: 92min 2sec (5522 seconds)
Published: Sat Nov 17 2018
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I used to watch 'Naked Archaeology' every chance I had, he has a very interesting approach to this subject matter... +1 Thanks for posting this.

👍︎︎ 6 👤︎︎ u/pcs2 📅︎︎ Dec 26 2018 🗫︎ replies

I reject my humanity, jojo!

👍︎︎ 2 👤︎︎ u/no_life_weeb 📅︎︎ Jan 02 2019 🗫︎ replies

"We know what it looks like".

No you "think" or "claim" not "know", there's no proof in this it's just an theory but not held up by experts

👍︎︎ 2 👤︎︎ u/Macanchait 📅︎︎ Jan 08 2019 🗫︎ replies

Even his own cherry picked proof contradicted him. Slightly entertaining though.

👍︎︎ 3 👤︎︎ u/gaslightlinux 📅︎︎ Dec 26 2018 🗫︎ replies
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