The fanciful “news” outlet, the Daily Mail has published an article discussing the varying interpretations of inscriptions found on an Egyptian site dating to 1800 BCE, possibly during the reign of Amenhotep II. The inscriptions are possibly signed “This is from Moshe” i.e. Moses. Of course, Mses means “son of” in ancient Egyptian (as in Ra-mses, Tut-mses, etc.). The article begins:
A controversial new interpretation of markings etched on the walls of an ancient Egyptian mine could prove the Book of Exodus to be true.
Researcher Michael Bar-Ron claimed that a 3,800-year-old Proto-Sinaitic inscription, found at Serabit el-Khadim in Egypt‘s Sinai Peninsula, may read ‘zot m’Moshe,’ Hebrew for ‘This is from Moses.’
The inscription, etched into a rock face near the so-called Sinai 357 in Mine L, is part of a collection of over two dozen Proto-Sinaitic texts first discovered in the early 1900s.
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