Exodus: Archeological Evidence

I stumbled onto a 2-hour documentary film that discusses archeological evidence of the Exodus in a fascinating way. I don't know yet what to make of it, how excited to get about it, but it did touch the science interest in me. The short of it is: Timothy Mahoney found evidence for all the pieces of the Exodus (arrival in Egypt, multiplying in Egypt, slavery, the plagues, departure from Egypt, and the conquest of Canaan, the Promised Land) in the right order, but not matching up with the accepted timeline of Egyptian history. Fascinating!


A screenshot from Mahoney's film showing the pieces of the Exodus (green to red) along side the Egyptian chronology in tans on the bottom. This shows what Mahoney thinks may be a misalignment of the two.

Mahoney says, paraphrased, "When you try to find the Exodus in Ramesses' time, which most do, it's not there. So, the Exodus is dismissed as a fairy tale. But, if you look back a couple centuries, voila!

In the image above, the Exodus sequence is mapped over the accepted Egyptian timeline with the generally accepted notion that the Exodus occurred during the reign of Ramesses II in the 1200s BC (Egypt's "New Kingdom" / "Late Bronze Age"). The problem is that there is no archeological evidence of any part of the Exodus during Ramesses's reign in the 1200s BC.

But there is archeological evidence of the Exodus. It's just 200 years earlier, in the 1400s-1600s BC. The film offers an explanation...

You can watch the 2-hour documentary here: Patterns of Evidence: Exodus (may have to provide your email address). There's also a book by the same title, here (also in Kindle form).

If you're intrigued by this, Mahoney has two subsequent films: "Patterns of Evidence: The Moses Controversy" and "Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle". I haven't seen either (yet).

I read somewhere that Timothy Mahoney lives in Denver.