By (author unknown), Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine – September 21, 2010 at 09:28PM
The account in Exodus of Moses and the Israelites fleeing the Pharoah’s advancing chariots is one of the most well known stories from the Bible. It tells of a body of water – variously translated as the Red Sea or the Sea of Reeds – parting to leave a passage of dry land with walls of water on both sides that allows the Israelites to flee to the other shore, before the waters rush back to drown the pursuing soldiers. The account also tells of a mighty east wind that blows all night and a new computer modeling study that applies physics to the escape route shows how the movement of wind as described in the book of Exodus could have parted the waters. ..
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