Bible story of Red Sea parting "may be true"

The Biblical story about the parting of the Red Sea may really have happened - with a little help from some freak weather conditions, say researchers.

A new computer modelling study, using information from the time, suggests that a powerful wind could have divided the waters, allowing Moses and the Israelites to escape Egypt. But the likely location of the "miracle" was not the Red Sea itself, but an area of the Nile Delta region nearby.

According to the Old Testament, the Israelites became trapped between the advancing Pharaoh's army and the "Sea of Reeds", but after a mighty east wind blew all night the waters parted, allowing them to escape.

Once the Israelites had crossed, the walls of water fell back into place, drowning the Pharaoh's men as they attempted to follow them. US Scientists have pinpointed a spot where the event could have occurred, just south of the Mediterranean Sea where an ancient branch of the Nile flowed into a coastal lagoon.


/Sky News/