Sunday, June 15, 2008

Discovery of the Pharaoh's chariot

According to the Book of Exodus, Pharaoh, the ruler of Egypt, has finally agreed to allow the Israelite slaves to leave Egypt peacefully, after a series of "plagues" is visited upon the Egyptians by God, working through Moses and Aaron. God instructs Moses to lead them out, not "by way of the land of the Philistines", but by the Red Sea wilderness. Moses stretched out his hand over the sea and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. After the Israelites had marched through the parted sea on dry ground, the hot pursuit Pharaoh's army was drowned as the sea covers up.

Is there evidence that such an event did in fact happen? Recent 'Physical evidence' of the crossing of the Red Sea and Pharaoh's drowned army in ancient Exodus prompting new look at the Old Testament. The issue is surfacing some 3,500 years after the event is said to have taken place with reports of Egyptian chariot wheels, bones of horses and men found in the Red Sea seabed, photographs to document it and new books by scientists that could lead to a whole remapping of the Exodus route. This could be the evidence of the crossing of the Red Sea and Pharaoh's drowned army.

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