Quote:The scientists suggest that trade winds may have carried a blizzard of ash to Egypt from Santorini, located about 700 miles (1,100 kilometers) from Tharo.
The archaeologists are going to have to reconcile with the chart prepared by the geologists aren't they? Studies have confirmed the foot thick ash layers in Asia Minor. The winds cannot have been blowing in all directions at once.
Some years ago there was an absolutely dreadful "documentary" called The Exodus Decoded put out by a bozo named Simcha Jacobovici...who calls himself the Naked Archaeologist even though he is neither. He, too, insisted on the 1500 BC date and tried to use the excavations of Manfred Bietak at Avaris. He horribly misquoted Bietak who noted finding a handful of flakes of volcanic ash into exactly the same kind of catastrophe. Well, it didn't work and as noted, 1,500 is well over a century too late for Thera.
What is possible is that Lower Egypt, dominated by the foreign Hyksos 15th dynasty, suffered economically from the loss of their commercial partners to Thera and they were subsequently defeated by Upper Egypt under Ahmose I. In any case, the Hyksos were rulers not slaves which makes the exodus tale a pile of crap written centuries later for political purposes.
