WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Essentially to the south of Jerusalem, and in the more westerly of the painted gulfs-the Gulf of Suez-one observes a perpendicular interruption in the paint. Writing on the map immediately to the east of this break reads in translation, “Red Sea crossing.”

Detailed explanation-2: -Most scholars agree that the “Red Sea” spoken of in this account is not the deep-water Red Sea of today, but the marshy Sea of Reeds farther north, and that the opening and closing of the seabed took place through violent storms, as mentioned in the Book of Exodus.