and this is where sight and sounds pulls out all the stops, to transport their audience to a bible-based storybook version of an ancient egypt with everything you might imagine there to be, deserts, pyramids, and of course camels, even though no one is quite sure when camels first came to egypt. oh, my goodness, there they are. we have two of our camels right there. wow! see the camel? i want a camel. can i give him a kiss? he won t bite my face off? those are serious teeth in there. they can clamp down. let me see. let me see your teeth. the performance vividly captures the sweeping and melodramatic twists of faith of joseph s story in the bible. he goes from being an egyptian slave and prisoner to the pharaoh s second in command. i hereby put you in charge of
exhaustion and a couple of close calls took their toll. dericho risked life and limb scaling these heights driven on by her renewed catholic fate. we were all raised in the church and i fell away for a while. and i did some things that today i would never do. but i have returned to the church and i m living my life more like i used to. and she s recording this experience to spread the message of a story that so deeply affected here. the entire human civilization was wiped out except for the eight people on the ark and we all came down from them. i believe the bible, i believe it happened, i believe it landed on mt. ararat and i believe it s still there. she also made videos to send to her children at home. i miss you guys and i love you.
they unearthed an ancient shoreline. we have actually dated it about 5,000 b.c. and that is about the time that the bible says noah and the great flood happened. exactly. i mean, wow. so it nailed it. ballard and other who is agree with the so-called black sea theory believe the survivors of this traumatic event passed the story down from generation to generation and eventually inspired the biblical account. here s the problem, when people read the story, they say, well did it cover the whole planet in water? no, but it covered their world. so that explains the stories that were handed down. correct. remember, you have to take it from the perspective of the storyteller. i mean they didn t know there was a north america and a south america. so as far as they were concerned, it was the whole world. scientists disagree with the details of this flood, but ballard is confident that he s on the right track.
i was remembering a story of a holocaust survivor who went home to his village and found everyone had gone. he said i could understand exactly why noah got drunk. if you imagine what it would have been like after the flood, devastation all these swollen bloated bodies lying around, terrible. and it turns out that flood stories like this are not unique to the bible. they can be found all over the ancient world. these stories didn t drop from heaven one day. in a clump of words all sent by god in book form. these stories developed in a certain place and time. leading some archaeologists to believe they re based on real events. people do not make these things up. so does this mean that we have got a flood back way back in antiquity? it may well a story is created
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 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, two, three 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