A) INTRODUCTION.

B) TO THE PROOF.

 

 

A) INTRODUCTION

 

 

The Egyptians did not record defeats in their monuments or literature.  Israel’s sojourn in Egypt presents Egypt’s pharaohs in a bad light; as dependent on foreign wise men (Joseph); as murderers; as enslavers; as petty tyrants; as deceived worshipers of empty gods; and as defeated by a tribe of shepherds.  It is not surprising that this account has not been found documented in Egypt’s ancient temples and tombs!

 

 

B) TO THE PROOF

 

 

The “Cyrus Cylinder” is debated as being archaeological proof for Israel being in Egypt.  Using the latest archaeological evidence from the stables of Rameses ll, to little-known ancient Egyptian texts, Egyptologist and Bible Archaeologist show that Israel did in fact exist and had a presence in ancient Egypt.

 

The “Ipuwer Papyrus” provides evidence of the Biblical plagues.  The ancient Egyptian document records events similar to the plagues of the Exodus.  Of course, failing to acknowledge the obvious Biblical records.

 

The “Amarna Tablets” record the Israelite takeover of Canaan.  Letters such as those by Abdu-Heba and Rib-Addi, show Canaanite kings pleading with Egypt to send them military aid to stop the Israelites from conquering the land.  Dating to the 14th century B.C., they provide strong evidence for an early date to the Exodus.

 

The “signature,” or “legacy,” of the Israelites would be, “lots of Mud Bricks that contained straw.”  And where can we find this many mud bricks?  The answer is in the pyramids of the 12th dynasty.  Each contained millions of “mud bricks.”  There were seven such pyramids built over a 200-year period.  Another 12th dynasty structure, considered to be one of the great wonders of the world, called the “Labyrinth,” also contained millions of “mud bricks” produced with slave labor.

 

Petrie found a workers village at Kahun, not far from Hawara, where the 12th dynasty pyramids were centered.  From his detailed collection of scarabs found in the village, he was able to determine that the village had been occupied from the time of Sesostris II (Senusret II) up until the time of Neferhotep I.  The village appeared to have been evacuated fairly suddenly.  Petrie also found numerous boxes containing the skeletons of one, two, or three babies at a time.  The boxes were found under the floors of the houses in the village and were left almost to commemorate the deaths of hundreds of babies in the town.  Does Passover come to mind?

 

Discovered by amateur archologist Ron Wyatt in 1978, a pair of pillars, one on the Egyptian side (Nuweiba) and the other on the Saudi Arabian side of the Gulf of Aqaba -- The Red Sea.  The one on the Egyptian side had fallen over and was in the sea.  It's inscriptions had worn off.  The one on the Saudi Arabian side was inscribed with the words:  Yahweh, Pharaoh, Mizraim, Moses, Death, Water, Solomon, Edom.  The Saudi pillar has now been removed by the Saudi’s (Muslim influence of hiding any Jewish evidence), but the one on the Nuweiba side is still standing (Ron Wyatt had it set back where it once stood) and can be visited.  Ron Wyatt also found 4, 6, and 8 spoked chariot wheels covered with coral strewn across the bottom of the Red Sea, from the Egyptian side to the Saudi side.  The pillars also state they were erected by King Solomon to commemorate the event of Israel crossing the Red Sea on dry ground.