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For more information and sources you could check out http://akinforthetruth.net.     As mentioned last discussion, when searching the Aqaba Gulf basin for any indications of the Exodus events recorded in the Bible, researchers knew exactly what they were searching for.   Now the sea floor off the Nuweiba shoreline has coral, scattered about, making undersea research complicated. As a living organism that tends to adhere to solid objects, not sand or silt, coral, as it grows, will often do so along the lines of the object that it adheres to, defining the original shape of the object. So thereby the coral could preserve the look of the object, long after the object itself has deteriorated and disappeared in the sea water.   In his undersea research in the area, and the video-tape documentation, Dr. Moller observed that the coral formations found off the Nuweiba Peninsula differed distinctly from that of corals elsewhere off the Gulf of Aqaba coast.   For example, since the sea bed was mostly sand or silt where he was looking, he noted that coral was formed as one would expect when at a site of scattered debris and wreckage.   Furthermore, very unique shapes, distinctly circular and attached to shaft-looking formations at right (90 degree) angles were seen at a number of spots on the sea floor. These formations contrast sharply with those found off the north and south coasts of Aqaba, which form dense reefs, often covering acres.   The formations off Nuweiba are generally much smaller, and are scattered randomly along the sea floor.

For more information and sources you could check out http://akinforthetruth.net.   As we have seen the Nuweiba Peninsula geologically, geographically and hydrologically matches conditions as described in Exodus. We have the common travel routes across Sinai Peninsula, sharply defined by impassable, craggy rock outcroppings and mountains, through which eroded stormwater beds, called wadis, snake.   We also note that they open up to a large, wide beachhead, large enough to facilitate the encampment of millions. It extends like a large delta from several wadis, and thus, to get out, the Israelites would have to backtrack or travel as far as they could northward along an arduous shoreline.   Of course, there, along the shoreline on their east side, as far as the eye could see, was the wide and very deep Gulf of Aquaba, an arm of the Red Sea.   We are now at the point in our effort to trace the steps taken by the Israelites, from Goshen to Mt. Horeb, or Sinai, during the Exodus, where we would like to explore whether any physical evidence exists at present, indicating that the Red Sea Crossing occurred from Nuweiba Peninsula.

For more information and sources you could check out http://akinforthetruth.net.   Last time we concluded that the Gulf of Aqaba, not that of the Suez, for historical and archaeological and Biblical reasons, is the better candidate for the miraculous Red Sea crossing recorded in the book of Exodus.   So, if the Gulf of Aqaba is that referred to by Scripture, where along its Eastern shore would we be able to mark Israel’s crossing? Two possibilities can be located. The first is found near the southern tip of the Sinai…a world famous and popular location because of its spectacular coral reefs and aquatic life, called the Straits of Tiran.   The Straits of Tiran are the narrow sea passages, about 13 km (8 miles) wide, between the and peninsulas which separates the from the .   It is named after located at its inflow, on which the has an observation post to monitor the compliance of in maintaining freedom of navigation of the straits as provided under the .   Aside from being quite out of the way in any direct path towards Midian and Mt. Sinai, it is noted that the steep, jagged terrain and coral-covered floor would be impossible for men, women, children, carts, as well as Egyptian chariots, to traverse, even if the water had been miraculously removed.   However, while traveling nearly 70 miles northward along the Aqaba coast one encounters a large beach-head on the Sinai side, somewhat centered on the Aqaba coast, called the Nuweiba Peninsula. Nuweiba lies on a large flood plain measuring about 40km² (25 square miles), sandwiched between the Sinai mountains and the Gulf of Aqaba, and is located some 465 km (289 miles) southeast from Cairo and 70 km (43 miles) south of the Israel- border.   Is Nuweiba large enough to accommodate such a large population of, perhaps three million, as is implied by Scripture?

The most impressive structure in ancient Rome

The most impressive structure in ancient Rome

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