Undiscouraged and using the Bible as a guide, Mahoney followed rumors of Semitic remains in the ruins of Avaris, a large city in Northern Egypt that in ancient times had a population of 30,000.
There was no archaeological evidence of Semitic culture in the city, archaeologists said, and therefore the Exodus, despite being a nice parable to base a sermon on, has no factual basis. This was based on the verse in the Bible (Exodus 1:11) stating that the Hebrews built the city of Ramses, which archaeologists knew existed only during the 13th century BCE. Mahoney’s investigation uncovered that objections to the Biblical version of the Exodus were based on a specific time-line connecting the Hebrews’ presence in Egypt to the reign of Ramses the Second (1279-1213 BCE), during the New Kingdom of Egypt. Directed by Mahoney, the film explored the argument set forth by Egyptologists who claimed the Exodus, as described in the Bible, never took place due to lack of physical evidence.
Mahoney’s quest resulted in what has become a groundbreaking documentary called “ Patterns of Evidence: The Exodus,” which sought to conquer the divide between science and religion by exploring the validity of the Biblical account of the Exodus through archaeological and scientific data.
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