On Mt. Sinai, God spoke to Moses. He commanded Moses to go to Egypt and lead his people, the enslaved Israelites, out of bondage. As the story goes, Moses went to Pharoah and asked for the freedom of the Israelites. When Pharoah refused, the Egyptians were afflicted with ten plagues. Finally, Pharoah agrees to release the Israelites from bondage and let them go as they please to worship their God. Almost a million Israelites fled Egypt. They trekked into the desert and up to the banks of the Red Sea. With Pharoah's chariots on their heels, Moses parted the Red Sea and the Israelites crossed to safety. The Israelites camped for a time at Mt. Sinai, where Moses climbed to the top of the mountain to speak to God. At the base of the mountain, there was a flat plain large enough for all the people. A brook ran from the mountain and provided the people with fresh water. Moses stayed on the mountain of God for a long time. The people grew anxious and eventually turned to worshipping a false idol, a golden calf, to help deliver them to the promised land. And so it goes. . . Of course, this is an enormously simplified version of the events in the book of Exodus, but almost everyone knows this story already even if you have never read the Bible, for the events were immortalized in a film starring Charlton Heston, The Ten Commandments. Even for those people who are not of a religious bent, this would seem to stand out as an important historical event. If in fact it really did occur. Archaeologists, scholars and religious figures have tried to establish a basis in fact for these events almost since they reportedly occurred.
The Gold of Exodus: The Discovery of the True Mount Sinai by Howard Blum claims that two men, Larry Williams and Bob Cornuke, can now provide that long sought archaeological proof. The Gold of Exodus relates the story of these two men and the adventure they had on their journey to find the location of the true Mt. Sinai.
Strangely, neither of these two men are archaeologists. Williams, a former two time candidate for the Senate from Montana, made his first million trading securities on the stock market. He has since multiplied that wealth by writing a book, starting his own trading and investing newsletter and travelling the lecture circuit teaching others his secrets. While Williams is not necessarily a religious man, he maintains a keen interest in archaeology and has sponsored many digs and projects. Cornuke is retired from the police force and is also a former SWAT team member. Cornuke proved to be a man with a profound sense of right and wrong and a strong commitment to honesty. He had no previous interest in archaeology and he was not zealously religious. An unlikely pair to go searching for the true Mt. Sinai, wouldn't you say?
