[Avodah] Evidence of Yoseif's Famine

[Micha Berger]

>From Snopes <https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/remains-kilimanjaro-bible-story>

    Do Remains Found on Mt. Kilimanjaro Parallel a Biblical Story?

    Claim

    Remains discovered on Mount Kilimanjaro provide evidence to support the
    story of Joseph, a well-known Bible passage about a drought in what is
    now Egypt nearly 4,000 years ago.

    Rating

	Mostly False

But what they find "mostly false is not the bit that the drought happened.
Just the bits over-eager Xian sites emballished it with.

(This framing is typical of Snopes' bias. I think their content is
accurate, but they present it in ways that show bias. Like focusing on
"remains" so that they can use the word "false" in the ratings. "Mostly
true" and "partially true" are also subjective calls in which their bias
peeks through.)

Anyway, here is the bit that made this an Avodah post:

   What's True

       Ohio State University researchers analyzed ice core samples retrieved
       from ice fields located atop Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. The
       findings suggested that three "catastrophic droughts" took place over
       the fields' 11,700-year history, one of which coincided with the
       biblical story of Joseph 3,600 years ago.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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