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And the Rivers Ran Red...With Soil
23 November 2004Archaeologist may have found the skull of the oldest son of Rameses II, who is believed to be the ruler of Egypt during the time of the biblical story of the Exodus. If true, the skull was that of the son killed by the 10th plague -- the death of the first-born sons -- visited upon Egypt by God to convince the pharaoh to free the Hebrew slaves. But Charles M. Sennott of The Boston Globe reports that a depressed fracture on the skull, which pathologists say occurred at the time of death, indicates that the son was killed by human hands, and that the story of the 10th plague might be a metaphor referring to this single death alone.
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