It's easy to believe that the story of the Exodus is Jewish and Christian history and forget that it is also part of the Muslim heritage too. With that in mind, I thought I'd present this video which suggests Ramses the Great was the Pharaoh of the Exodus but instead or drawing on quotations from the Bible or Torah, it draws upon the Quran - of course the three great religions share a common ancestry which is sometimes overlooked.
If you view the video over at YouTube there is quite a lot of text to read as well. For anybody purely interested in the history the video will offer little new, but for those who are interested in Exodus it might interest you. The video claims that the mummy had a very high salt content which indicated death by drowning, If anybody knows published scientific material to back this (otherwise unsubstantiated) claim, I'd be very interested.
(PS can we please be temperate with comments on this. I know the question of the Bible, Quaran and Torah as historical record is a controversial one. (I happen to believe they do record real historical events). As always I invite debate, but I will censor any comments which in my opinion cross the boundary between debate and an attack on religion.)
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