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Sumerian legend of a 'Great Flood'. In those days, stories
               were one of very few sources of entertainment and travelling
               story tellers were always welcomed.


               What  they  did  find  was  that  the  Egyptians  had  recorded
               virtually every aspect of daily life; cattle sales, marriage
               contracts,  magical  incantations  and  curses,    work  details,
               grocery  lists,  all  the  details  of  daily  life.  What  they
               eagerly  sought  but  never  found  was  any  reference  to  this
               supposed event in the bible. Nor has anything been found to
               this  day.  Nothing  about  mass  slavery.  No  mention  about

               Israelites (until much, much later). No mention of the deaths
               of  every  first  born  son.  No  mention  of  a  mass  exodus  of
               people.  No  signs  of  economic  disruption  that  would  have
               resulted from such a population loss. No mention of the loss
               of an entire army, let alone the loss of the Pharaoh and 600
               chariots (Exodus 14:7).

               So, no supporting evidence from Egyptian writing. How about

               physical archaeological evidence?

               According to the bible (Numbers 1:46) the numbers of males
               capable of bearing arms was 603,550, meaning that, with their
               wives and children, the Israelites would have numbered over
               two million people. Yet, this huge number of people—who would
               have overwhelmed the Egyptians in Egypt by sheer weight of

               numbers—left  no  trace  of  their  passage  through  the  Sinai
               Desert.  Nor  is  there  any  evidence  from  either  history  or
               archaeology of the plagues that ravaged Egypt in the story of
               the  Exodus  or  of  the  loss  of  an  entire  Egyptian  army,
               including 600 chariots (Exodus 14:7).




               For  almost  200  years,  biblical  scholars  and  archaeologists
               have combed the Sinai for any evidence a sizable population
               had ever been there, and there is nothing to show for their
               effort.  They  find  evidence  of  small  bands  of  hunter-
               gatherers,  but  two  million  Israelites  supposedly  spent  38
               years at the oasis of Kadesh Barnea leaving not a trace of
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