born in mesopotamia, goes to egypt, and comes back. the story is trying to connect him, i think, to the entire ark of the region. it s a story that s shared by about half the world. abraham s path will eventually wind through ten countries. our next stop is in the biblical land of kanaan, in what is now israel and the west bank. my guide on this part of abraham s path is abnar goran, an israeli archeologist. if somebody is thinking for getting back to roots, coming back to being in touch with god, the visit is always the place. it s almost kind of shocking to me that these immense stories that more than, you know, 2 billion, 3 billion people believe in, christian, jew, muslim, there s not a rock that connects them. you re an archeologist.
the text does tell us that he was educated in all of the ways of the egyptians. so, he was educated as a warrior, in reading and writing, in all ways. as a scribe, everything. as moses grows up in the palace among the egyptian elite, we re told that his people, the israelites, labor rigorously with bricks and mortar. and of all the building projects from the time of the pharaohs, one stands alone. we re driving through quite a bleak part of cairo. really very ungrand, if you like. and yet we re about to happen across one of the greatest feats of human engineering ever, ever contemplated. what everybody thinks they know about the pyramids is that the israelites built them. we re going to find out whether that s true. i m going to show you a very interesting discovery. this man is a famous egyptian archeologist. he says a massive amount of manpower would have been needed to build these pyramids.
with bricks and mortar. and of all the building projects from the time of the pharaohs, one stands alone. we re driving through quite a bleak part of cairo. really very ungrand, if you like. and yet we re about to happen across one of the greatest feats of human engineering ever, ever contemplated. what everybody thinks they know about the pyramids is that the israelites built them. we re going to find out whether that s true. i m going to show you a very interesting discovery. this man is a famous egyptian archeologist. he says a massive amount of manpower would have been needed to build these pyramids. whose pyramid is that? this is the period of kufu. and that took 10,000 people. 10,000 workman actually lived here in this place. next to the ruins of the village where the workmen lived, there s an ancient cemetery. the tombs of the pyramid builders are a significant
born in mesopotamia, goes to egypt, and comes back. the story is trying to connect him, i think, to the entire ark of the region. it s a story that s shared by about half the world. abraham s path will eventually wind through ten countries. our next stop is in the biblical land of kanaan, in what is now israel and the west bank. my guide on this part of abraham s path is abnar goran, an israeli archeologist. if somebody is thinking for getting back to roots, coming back to being in touch with god, the visit is always the place. it s almost kind of shocking to me that these immense stories that more than, you know, 2 billion, 3 billion people believe in, christian, jew, muslim, there s not a rock that connects them. you re an archeologist. doesn t that sort of trouble you? of course, i would love to have much more concrete remains