A cobra from the time of the pharaohs in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before the people. (Ex. 13:22)

Sunrise over the Gulf of Aqaba.

The Red Sea's Gulf of Aqaba, which some propose was the sea crossed in the Exodus.

A highway across the Sinai Peninsula.

Sunrise over the Sinai Peninsula. The Wadi Watir opens onto Nuweiba Beach at the Red Sea's Gulf of Aqaba. Some favor this site for the

Exodus sea parting.

The border lakes on the edge of Egypt's Nile delta contain sites favored by most scholars for the miraculous

Exodus sea crossing.

The coast of the Gulf of Aqaba at Nuweiba Beach. If the miraculous sea parting took place here, it would be bigger

than anyone could imagine.

The monastery of St. Catherine's at the site of thetraditional Mt. Sinai in the Sinai Peninsula.

Sunrise over the Sinai Peninsula.

Egyptologist Manfred Bietak shares new discoveries from the area the Israelites lived in before leaving Egypt.

Egyptologist Manfred Bietak working at the excavation site of Tell el-Dab'a in the eastern Nile delta, where evidence of

a massive Semtic settlement exists.

One of England’s preeminent geographers, Charles Beke, searched for the route of the Exodus journey

out of Egypt in the 19th century.

Investigative filmmaker Timothy P. Mahoneyat the Red Sea's Gulf of Aqaba.

One of 19th century England’s preeminent geographers, Charles Beke, believed the Exodus sea was the Gulf of

Aqaba and that Mt. Sinai was in southern Jordan.

English geographer Charles Beke argued against the scholars of his day who were moving the Exodus sea crossing to the

shallow lakes of Egypt's border.

Investigative filmmaker Timothy P. Mahoney with Swedish DNA researcher Lennart Moller on the trail of the Exodus.

Moses wrote down their starting places, stage by stage, by command of the LORD ... (Num. 33:2)

Moses calling out to God. Moses writing the Torah, the first five books of the Bible.

Lift up your staff, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, that the people of Israel may go through the sea on

dry ground. (Ex. 14:16)

The region of the Exodus journey out of Egypt to the Promised Land of Canaan.

And the people of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides

women and children. (Ex. 12:37)

19th century explorers Edward Robinson and Eli Smith searched for the route of the Exodus journey

in the Sinai Peninsula.

19th century explorers Edward Robinson and Eli Smith searched for the route of the Exodus journey.

Timothy Mahoney interviewing Austrian Egyptologist Manfred Bietak in Jerusalem.