| The Magnificent Tomb of Boy King Tut - Fleshing Out | | | | lazuli, silver and malachite, carnelian and bronze are |
| the Biblical Exodus Story! | | | | strung on to the necks of female slaves." {.. and they |
| When the tomb of Tutankhamon was discovered in | | | | requested from the Egyptians, silver and gold articles. |
| 1922 it caused a world-wide sensation, the splendor | | | | And God made the Egyptians favor them and they |
| of its death mask of pure gold becoming a | | | | granted their request." Exodus 12:35-36}; |
| centerpiece display of the wealth and opulence of | | | | - Additional extra-biblical confirmation of the Passover |
| ancient Egypt. In addition, extensive in size, it | | | | plagues are the mass burial graves of Egyptians, |
| contained much jewelry of turquoise, lapis lazuli, | | | | excavated at Tel ed Daba and elsewhere, indicating a |
| carnelian, also articles of gold, silver and bronze, plus | | | | panic, no individual burials. |
| numerous objects for the Pharaoh's journey of | | | | The Exodus of the Hebrew slaves from Egypt |
| death. Egyptologists, however, puzzled over how | | | | After the Tenth Plague, when Amenhotep III's |
| Tutankhamon, but eighteen and only the heir to | | | | first-born son, Tutankhamun dies in the tenth plague, |
| Egypt's throne, could be buried in so magnificent a | | | | Pharaoh finally orders Moses to take the Hebrews |
| tomb - the established tradition being that reigning | | | | and leave Egypt. Later however, when he realizes |
| Pharaohs built their own tombs during their lifetimes. | | | | the loss to Egypt of its slave people, also learning |
| The size, grandeur and ornamentation of each | | | | from his scouts that they are "trapped in the |
| Pharaoh's tomb and the splendor of its contents, | | | | wilderness" (see article "Miracles, 3500 Years Ago"), |
| reflected upon the length and wealth of his | | | | he pursues them with his chariot army. |
| sovereignty. | | | | Going beyond the plagues, the Ipuwer scroll also |
| Dr. Lennart Moeller, medical doctor from Stockholm, | | | | corroborates the biblical description of the Exodus |
| but also an Egyptologist, archeologist, amateur deep | | | | flight: "fire .. mounted up on high .. its burning goes |
| sea diver, etc., developed a theory in his book "The | | | | forth against the enemies of the land" {Bible: "by |
| Exodus Story" to explain the anomaly: Tutankhamun, | | | | night in a pillar of fire"}. |
| first born son of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, dies in the | | | | Pharaoh and his Chariot army Drowns |
| Tenth Plague; later, Pharaoh, pursuing the fleeing | | | | Pharaoh, leading his chariot army, pursues the |
| Hebrews with his chariot army, drowns and his body | | | | Hebrews to the Gulf of Aqaba, where recently |
| is lost in the Red Sea; Amenhotep's empty tomb is | | | | discovered artifacts of coral-covered chariot |
| therefore available while royal prince Tutankhamun is | | | | wreckage plus bones of men and horses - all strewn |
| dead and needful of a burial place. | | | | along an eight mile undersea ridge between the Sinai |
| There is much extra-biblical evidence to support the | | | | Peninsula and Saudi Arabia - indicate they had |
| theory. | | | | drowned (see Ezine article, "Miracles, 3500 Years |
| The biblical "Ten Plagues" inflict Egypt | | | | Ago"). |
| After Pharaoh repeatedly refuses to let the Hebrew | | | | Corroboration of these events comes from several |
| slaves leave Egypt, Moses warns there will be | | | | sources - firstly, the Ipuwer scroll: "See, he who slept |
| plagues, first the Nile turning into blood, then frogs, | | | | wifeless, found a noblewoman .." Written long |
| lice, and finally locusts, darkness, and the tenth | | | | afterwards, it obviously describes conditions after the |
| plague, death of all firstborn, including Prince | | | | loss of the Egyptian army, composed of upper-class |
| Tutankhamun. | | | | males. Secondly, this also supports the request of the |
| A highly important extra-biblical source of | | | | "royal" widow of Pharaoh, in a remarkable (clay cube) |
| corroborative detail - to almost all the narratives of | | | | Amarna letter to the King of the Hittites- asking for |
| the ten-plagues plus Exodus events (as told in both | | | | one of his sons to become her new husband. It was |
| the Bible and Passover-Haggadah), is the Ipuwer | | | | sent to King Suppiluliumas, "He who was my husband |
| Papyrus Scroll. Found in Egypt in the early 19th | | | | is dead and I have no son. People say you have |
| century, it was translated and taken to the Leiden | | | | many sons. If you send me one of your sons he will |
| Museum in Holland where it is still kept. Described in | | | | become my husband .. repugnant to me to take one |
| several archaeological books of ancient Egypt, it is a | | | | of my servants .. since most ancient times .. never |
| papyrus scroll over twelve feet in length, called | | | | happened before .. write to a foreign country .. |
| "Admonitions of Ipuwer", written during the 19th | | | | humiliating to me and my country." |
| Dynasty by an Egyptian scribe-historian named | | | | The loss of the mighty Egyptian chariot army seems |
| Ipuwer. Interpreted in 1909, it depicts violent events | | | | to be supported by various items of evidence - |
| in Egypt during the prior dynasty, which seem to | | | | Josephus, the Roman historian, quotes Monetho, an |
| parallel the Biblical plagues and the Exodus story - it | | | | Egyptian priest, circa 300 BC, regarding the "easy" |
| describes a society in total crisis, providing essentially | | | | conquest of mighty Egypt by the Hyksos. (Egypt's |
| an eyewitness account of extreme and unusual | | | | loss of its entire chariot army at the Red Sea seems |
| occurrences: | | | | a corroborating explanation.) |
| - "What the ancestors had foretold has happened", | | | | Also, Tel-Amarna letters have been found from cities |
| (Imhotep, the Egyptian vizier who saved Egypt from | | | | dependent on Egypt for protection from invaders, |
| famine, 260 years earlier - thought to be the biblical | | | | begging Pharaoh to send troops - saying "no help has |
| Joseph - had foretold the exodus of the Hebrew | | | | come". Historians note that Egypt having lost its |
| slaves from Egypt.) | | | | powerful chariot army was now incapable of sending |
| - "The river is blood .. there is blood everywhere, no | | | | military protection, and recovery of a demoralized |
| shortage of death .. many dead are buried in the river | | | | Egypt would take a long time - per Dr. Moeller, it was |
| {The first plague}.. lacking are grain, charcoal .. great | | | | "the beginning of the end of the 18th dynasty". |
| hunger and suffering". | | | | Tutankhamun is buried in the tomb of his Pharaoh |
| - "destruction of grain" {The plague of locusts or hail}. | | | | father |
| - "We don't know what has happened in the land." | | | | With Pharaoh Amenhotep III drowned in a far-off |
| - "animals moaning and roaming freely". | | | | sea and his magnificent tomb completely furnished |
| - "darkness" {The ninth plague}. | | | | but absent a body, but with the body of royal Prince |
| - Deaths .. "children of princes, prisoners, brothers" | | | | Tutankhamun needing a burial place, the obvious |
| {The tenth plague, deaths of all the first-born}. | | | | apparently took place, the Egyptian court deciding |
| - "Gone is what yesterday has seen. See now, the | | | | that Tutankhamun would be buried in his father's |
| land is deprived of kingship. See, all the ranks, they | | | | tomb. The only personal item was the magnificent |
| are not in their place .. like a herd that roams without | | | | death-mask. |
| a herdsman." | | | | One direct reference is cited by Dr. Moeller, " .. young |
| - "Poor .. have become of wealth .. Gold and lapis | | | | king .. buried in tomb originally prepared for 'Ay'. |