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Pharaoh's chariots
found in Red Sea?
'Physical evidence' of ancient Exodus
"And 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." (Exodus
14:21)
One of the most famous stories of the Bible is God's parting
of the Red Sea to save the Israelites from the Egyptian army and
the subsequent drowning of soldiers and horses in hot pursuit.
But is there evidence that such an event did in fact happen –
and if so, precisely where did it take place?
The issue is surfacing some 3,500 years after the event is
said to have taken place with reports of Egyptian chariot wheels
found in the Red Sea, photographs to document it and new books
by scientists that could lead to a whole remapping of the Exodus
route and a fresh look at ancient biblical accounts.
Wheel of fortune
Is this a chariot wheel that chased Moses?
"I am 99.9 percent sure I picked up a chariot wheel," Peter
Elmer says after two diving trips to the Gulf of Aqaba branch of
the sea. "It was covered in coral."
The 38-year-old forklift mechanic from Keynsham, England,
traveled to the region with his brother, Mark, after being
inspired by videos of explorers Ron Wyatt and Jonathan Gray, who
have documented artifacts that in at least one case authorities
have confirmed to be a chariot wheel dating to the time of the
Exodus.
"I believe I actually sat in an ancient chariot cab," Elmer
said, referring to his time exploring a submerged item in what
he describes as an underwater scrapyard. "Without question, it
is most definitely the remains of the Egyptian army."
Beach
Crossing
But despite all of Elmer's excitement, others who have been
to the same location are not so sure what is being viewed
underwater are the remnants of the great chase and urge extreme
caution regarding the unsubstantiated claims.
"All kinds of people are finding coral and calling it chariot
parts," says Richard Rives, president of
Wyatt Archaeological
Research in Tennessee. "It's most likely coral covered with
coral. ... Opportunists are combining false things with the true
things that are found. These people are making it up as they go
to be TV stars."
Rives was a longtime partner of Ron Wyatt, an anesthetist and
amateur archaeologist who died of cancer in 1999. Before passing
away, Wyatt devoted years searching for and documenting physical
evidence for events mentioned in the Bible. In addition to
chariot wheels, Wyatt claimed to have found Noah's Ark on the
mountain next to Ararat in Turkey, the "true" Mount Sinai in
Saudi Arabia and the Ark of the Covenant with the Ten
Commandments near the site of Jesus Christ's crucifixion.
