Exodus: Searching for the Footprints of Two Million People in the Desert | CASE 007

Six hundred thousand men on foot, not counting children. Read literally, the Book of Exodus describes some two million people leaving Egypt and wandering the desert for forty years. But when we try to follow their steps, the trail breaks: Pharaoh has no name, no one knows where the sea was, and Egypt says nothing. In this case we keep four things apart: what the TEXT says, the EVIDENCE that has been found, the HYPOTHESES researchers propose, and what circulates UNVERIFIED. Rekhmire's brickmakers, the cities of Pithom and Rameses, the papyrus that logged a few herders at the border, the isotopes of Avaris, the Hyksos, the math of water and food, the digs at Kadesh Barnea, the "Pharaoh's chariot wheels" of Nuweiba, and the Merneptah Stele, the first known time history writes the word "Israel." CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold open 1:16 The king with no name 2:54 The family that leads the people 4:23 The plagues and the silence 6:01 The papyrus that seems to tell it 6:41 The traces that do exist 7:41 The Hyksos 9:07 The multitude 10:26 Forty years, no camp 12:09 The sea and the mountain 13:00 The proof they say is hidden 14:14 What if the problem is the number? 15:30 Israel appears. The journey doesn't 16:03 Fleeing Egypt… into Egypt 16:59 The open file 17:47 The missing road SOURCES · I. Finkelstein, "Exodus: History and myth, then and now," Tel Aviv University (2017) · Stantis et al., "Who were the Hyksos?", PLOS ONE (2020) · N. Maaranen, "Ties that bind," doctoral thesis, Bournemouth University (2020) · Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAI), 2021 annual report: "The Hyksos Enigma" project · Sphere Handbook, water supply standard · TheTorah.com: "Recounting the Census" · "What we know about the Egyptian places mentioned in Exodus" · Biblical Archaeology Society: "Wilderness Wanderings: Where Is Kadesh?" · Bible: Exodus 1–15, Numbers 1, 3, 12–14, 20, Deuteronomy 1 and 34, 1 Kings 6, Hosea 11, Amos 2 All images are original illustrations and recreations. People always appear as featureless silhouettes. The Nuweiba seabed is a recreation. #Exodus #Moses #Archaeology #Bible #TheLostTheory