Archaeological evidence for the Exodus?

[Ged]

A papyrus dating from the end of the Old Kingdom was found in the early 19th century in Egypt It seems to be an eyewitness account of the events preceding the dissolution of the Old Kingdom. Its author, an Egyptian named Ipuwer, writes:

• Plague is throughout the land. Blood is everywhere.
• The river is blood.
• That is our water! That is our happiness! What shall we do in respect thereof? All is ruin!
• Trees are destroyed.
• No fruit or herbs are found...
• Forsooth, gates, columns and walls are consumed by fire.
• Forsooth, grain has perished on every side.
• The land is not light [dark]

Here is an article about this papyrus.

Very interesting to say the least.

[MathMih]

Critics believe that encampments of such a multitude would have left some sort of “trash” for them to follow, but they are still trying to figure out which route the children of Israel were on. “Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.” (Nehemiah 9:21) There was no thrown away, worn-out clothing, no piles of leftover manna as it melted (Exodus 16:21), and they left no “soda bottles or gum wrappers” for them to follow. As others have brought out, the Israelites the critics are looking for never existed, because they do not believe God provided for them, but the truth is Israel “lacked nothing”! Their inability to find something is what they offer as proof! They only recently found (2002) the “workers’ village” of the Giza Plateau where the Great Pyramid is. It is estimated this town housed 20,000 people and was built out of bricks, whereas the children of Israel lived in tents. And this discovery only came after they had searched every inch of the Giza Plateau for the last two hundred years of archaeology. See this site with new info on the Exodus = • Edited by a Moderator •