‘Mind-Blowing’ Discovery? Researchers Claim They Found Moses’ Exodus Route

Bible scholars trying to retrace the route Moses took when he led the Israelites out of Egypt say they have found evidence that Mount Sinai is actually in eastern Saudi Arabia.

Ryan Mauro, of the Doubting Thomas Research Foundation (DTRF), told Daily Star Online that his team traveled to Saudi Arabia three times to gather evidence. 

“What I found there was simply mind-blowing,” Mauro said. “I couldn’t believe that there was all this evidence for the Exodus and hardly anyone outside this region was aware of it.”

Although they are still piecing together a map and timeline, the researcher believes his theory is the most “plausible” route. It starts with the Israelites leaving Egypt through Cairo and crossing into the Sinai Peninsula.

Mauro said there is evidence that Moses split the sea at the Gulf of Aqaba, at a spot now known as Nuweiba beach. There, the crossing would be just eight miles wide and 33 meters (108 feet) deep. He believes they crossed into ancient Midian and stopped at Mount Sinai, which he claims is the peak of Jabal al-Lawz in Saudi Arabia. It was at Mount Sinai where God gave Moses the Ten Commandments on stone tablets.

“I’m fully convinced that the Israelites went into the ancient land of Midian when they fled slavery in Egypt,” he told the British newspaper.

The theory that Jabal al-Lawz is the biblical Mount Sinai is…