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Researchers have decoded a puzzling message ‘from Moses’ in an ancient Egyptian mine and it could prove that the Bible is true.
The ancient carvings could point towards Moses, who played a central role in the Bible.
A team of researchers have been analyzing drawings found in Serabit el-Khadim, Egypt, which during ancient times would have been used as a mine for turquoise.
The place is also where some of the earliest examples of alphabetic writing were discovered.
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While the message in question has baffled experts for years, one researcher believes he has cracked the code.
Michael Bar-Ron has claimed that he has found at least two carvings which name Moses and mention a golden bull.
Speaking to the Humble Skeptic, Bar-Ron shared that he had been studying the site for nearly a decade and said that some carvings could say ‘zot m’Moshe’ which would translate as ‘this is from Moses’.
In the Bible when Moses pops up to Mount Sinai (which is around the same part of the world as Serabit el-Khadim) to receive the 10 commandments, he’s quite dismayed to discover that while he was gone the Israelites made a statue of a golden cow and started worshipping it.
He was gone for forty days and nights and once Moses got back, he burned the statue, ground the remains into powder and made the worshippers drink it.
So if Bar-Ron’s translations of the carvings are right then it is somewhat close to the story from Exodus and points towards the historicity of Moses.
The researcher said: “As soon as it becomes a Masters and PhD thesis, it will be reviewed critically by those whose opinions count, and I’ll need to defend it.
“As we speak, it is now being reviewed by my new academic advisor who will help me develop the material into theses according to the expectations and standards of Ariel University.”
However, according to a report by the Daily Mail, not everyone is as convinced by this potential discovery as they say one expert named Dr Thomas Schneider, an Egyptologist from the University of British Columbia, said that this supposed decoding of the carvings was ‘completely unproven and misleading’.
He warned that ‘arbitrary’ interpretations of ancient letters when we’re not certain what they say can change the way people view history and ancient times.
So, despite these findings, we might never know for sure what was meant in the messages.
