br br br br About the guest br br Ahmed Osman was born in Cairo Egypt in 1934. He studied law at Cairo university and worked as a journalist in the early 1960s. In an attempt to find the historical roots behind the continuous political conflict between Egypt and Israel, he left his country for London at the end of 1964. Since then he has been researching the connection between the stories of the Bible and the historical evidence uncovered by archaeologists during the last hundred years. His first achievement was the identification of a major biblical figure, Joseph the Patriarch of the coat of many colours, as Yuya the minister and father-in-law to Amenhotep III (c. 1405-1367 BC). br This identification became the subject of his first book, Stranger In The Valley Of The Kings (1987). In his second book Moses: Pharaoh of Egypt (1990), his effort was to clarify the date of the Israelite Exodus from Egypt, while in his third book The House of the Messiah (1992) he attempted to establish the identity of King David the great ancestor of Jesus Christ. br br Ahmed's book "Moses and Akhenaten" is the basis for the John Haymen motion picture "Moses and Nefertiti" that will be filmed in Egypt is early 2006. click for an overview of the film. br br br About the book br br Recent archaeological findings confirm Osman’s 25-year-old discovery of the location of the city of the Exodus br br • Explains why modern scholars have been unable to find the city of the Exodus: they are looking in the wrong historical period and thus the wrong region of Egypt br br • Details the author’s extensive research on Hebrew scriptures and ancient Egyptian texts and records, which allowed him to pinpoint the Exodus site br br • Reveals his effort to have his finding confirmed by the Egyptian government, including his debates with Zahi Hawass, Egyptian Minister for Antiquities Affairs br br When the first archaeologists visited Egypt in the late 1800s, they arrived in the eastern Nile Delta to verify the events described in the biblical Book of Exodus. Several locations believed to be the city of the Exodus were found but all were later rejected for lack of evidence. This led many scholars to dismiss the Exodus narrative merely as a myth that borrowed from accounts of the Hyksos expulsion from Egypt. But as Ahmed Osman shows, the events of Exodus have a historical basis and the ruins of the ancient city of Zarw, where the Road to Canaan began, have been found.