The biblical account of the parting of the Red Sea has inspired and mystified people for millennia. A new computer modeling study by researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) shows how the movement of wind as described in the book of Exodus could have parted the waters.
There is an innate urge to try and validate our stories and legends by going out to find ‘proof’, usually through archaeology, but a number of other sciences, as well as historiography are drawn into the fray. Sometimes, the resulting theories can cause trouble. A case in point is the Ayodhya conflict, which partly stems from the urge to ‘identify’ the sites mentioned in the epic Ramayana.
Despite all that, this phenomenon is rather cool, and there’s an animated clip that shows how it works. Click here.