Why is there no Egyptian Accounts of Moses, Joseph or the Israelites?
no Egyptian record mentions Moses of the Exodus, even indirectly.
Nowhere in the written record of ancient Egypt is there any explicit mention of Hebrew or Israelite slaves, let alone a figure named Moses. There is no mention of the Nile waters turning into blood, or of any series of plagues matching those in the Bible, or of the defeat of any pharaoh on the scale suggested by the Torah’s narrative of the mass drowning of Egyptian forces at the sea.
No competent scholar or archaeologist will deny these facts. Case closed, then?
Until the Rosetta Stone was discovered in 1799, historians had no way of reading Egyptian hieroglyphs, so they simply assumed that Egyptian writings would have mentioned Joseph and Moses. Not only did they play important roles in Egyptian history, the Israelites would have drawn attention to themselves by living decades longer than any Egyptians ever did.
Having translated the Rosetta Stone, Egyptologists set about finding Egyptian references to Joseph or Moses. We have copious documents from Egypt in the Late Bronze Age, including such trivia as commercial documents, but nothing that mentions this amazing man Moses, the miracles he performed, the theft of jewellery, the Exodus from Egypt or the loss of an entire army in pursuit. Life seems to have gone on unchanged throughout the period during which the Exodus might have occurred. As historians learnt more they said.
But we have multiple confirmed accounts of Egypt and Moses in America? Los Lunas Stones
A large basalt boulder of perhaps 80 tons, chiseled flat on one side and inscribed with 9 lines of text. The language of the text is apparently Hebrew and most translations agree that the text is a representation of the ten commandments of Exodus 20:2-17. Or a Decalogue. The boulder is also referred to as the “Mystery Stone” by some.
In Stephen's Incidents of Travel in Central America, the author quotes what Fuentes (chronicler of the ancient kingdom of Guatemala and of the Toltecan Indians) said of the origin of the leaders of the Quiche Maya. Fuentes said that, according to the grandson of the last king of the Quiches, the TOLTECS WERE ISRAELITES, released by Moses from the tyranny of Pharaoh. After crossing the Red Sea they became idolators. To escape the reproofs of Moses, they strayed away and, under the leadership of a man named Tanub, drifted from continent to continent until they came to a place they called the SEVEN CAVERNS -- a part of the kingdom of Mexico. Here they founded the city of TULA. The story recounts that from Tanub, their leader, sprang the ruling families of the Toltec and the Quiche Maya.
Of these Toltecs, who were in 1519 only a distant memory, Don Fernando writes –
In The Annals of the Cakchiquels -- Lords of Totonicapan we find a direct reference to the RACIAL ORIGINS of the kings and nobles who led and governed the Maya in the New World.
Notice --
These, then, were the THREE NATIONS OF THE QUICHES [MAYANS -- the Cauecs, the Greathouses and the Lord Quiches], and they came from where the sun rises, DESCENDANTS OF ISRAEL, of the same language and the same customs....When they arrived at the edge of the [Red] sea, BALAM-QITZE [a native title for one in a religious office] touched it with his staff and at once A PATH OPENED, which then closed up again, for thus the great God wished it to be done, BECAUSE THEY WERE SONS OF ABRAHAM AND JACOB. So it was that those THREE NATIONS passed through, and with them THIRTEEN OTHERS CALLED VULKAMAG....We have written that which by tradition our ancestors told us, who came from the other part of the sea, WHO CAME FROM CIVAN-TULAN, BORDERING BABYLONIA. -- Translated by Delia Goetz. University of Oklahoma Press, 1953, p. 170.
But in America they have multiple accounts something is not adding up.
Between the 9th and 16th centuries we have little information about the pyramids, In the midst of the quirky illustrations and odd ideas of the 17th century, however, came the first scientific reports about the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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