Egypt
- Biblical Plagues Really Happened Say Scientists
The Telegraph (Richard Gray) Researchers believe they have found evidence of real natural disasters on which the ten plagues of Egypt, which led to Moses freeing the Israelites from slavery in the Book of Exodus in the Bible, were based. But rather...
- Review: Mummies - Secrets Of The Pharaohs
Oak Park Newspaper (Ed Vincent) I haven't seen the documentary film that is being reviewed, but although the author of this brief review compliments various aspects of the documentary, he takes real issue with the treatment of the Exodus, which he...
- Different Slants On The Sinai Pumice Story
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070402-egypt-volcano.html"Egyptian archaeologists today announced that they have unearthed traces of volcanic ash on the northern coast of Sinai that date to around 1500 B.C.—supporting accounts that a...
- Archaeology Magazine Review Of Ramesses Tv Show
http://www.archaeology.org/online/reviews/mummies&bones.html It is necessary to page down to about half way down this page, which shows a number of reviews. The show described is Rameses - Wrath of God or Man - it offers a critique of the programme,...
- Ramses Ii: The Mummy
The thought that the mummy of Ramses II in the Cairo museum is the mummy of the Pharaoh of the Exodus is almost certainly wrong. The story of the Exodus has never been proved to be anything other than a good story but whether it is true or not is not...
Egypt
Hollywood takes on the Exodus
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2300569,00.html
I don't usually cover Biblical archaeology, but this one stood out as being somewhat off the beaten track: "The greatest story ever told has acquired a Hollywood twist. James Cameron, the director of Titanic, is the executive producer of a new documentary that claims to have uncovered fresh evidence confirming one of the most dramatic episodes in the Old Testament — the parting of the Red Sea and the Jewish exodus from Egypt. In The Exodus Decoded, a 90-minute documentary that will be shown in America this month, Cameron and Simcha Jacobovici, the Canadian film producer, claim a volcanic eruption on the Greek archipelago of Santorini triggered a chain of natural catastrophes recorded in the Bible as the 10 plagues that God visited upon Egypt as punishment for enslaving the Jews.
Cameron believes the parting of the Red Sea may have been a tsunami that destroyed the pharaoh’s army as it pursued the escaping Jews. The documentary claims the episode occurred not at the Red Sea but at the smaller Sea of Reeds, a marshy area at the northern end of the Gulf of Suez."
- Biblical Plagues Really Happened Say Scientists
The Telegraph (Richard Gray) Researchers believe they have found evidence of real natural disasters on which the ten plagues of Egypt, which led to Moses freeing the Israelites from slavery in the Book of Exodus in the Bible, were based. But rather...
- Review: Mummies - Secrets Of The Pharaohs
Oak Park Newspaper (Ed Vincent) I haven't seen the documentary film that is being reviewed, but although the author of this brief review compliments various aspects of the documentary, he takes real issue with the treatment of the Exodus, which he...
- Different Slants On The Sinai Pumice Story
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070402-egypt-volcano.html"Egyptian archaeologists today announced that they have unearthed traces of volcanic ash on the northern coast of Sinai that date to around 1500 B.C.—supporting accounts that a...
- Archaeology Magazine Review Of Ramesses Tv Show
http://www.archaeology.org/online/reviews/mummies&bones.html It is necessary to page down to about half way down this page, which shows a number of reviews. The show described is Rameses - Wrath of God or Man - it offers a critique of the programme,...
- Ramses Ii: The Mummy
The thought that the mummy of Ramses II in the Cairo museum is the mummy of the Pharaoh of the Exodus is almost certainly wrong. The story of the Exodus has never been proved to be anything other than a good story but whether it is true or not is not...