A crossing site has been discovered in the Gulf of Aqaba. This is consistent with the border of Egypt having been at the “River of Egypt” and extending down to the Gulf (Gn 15:18, Nm 34:5).

For a period after 1987, the explorer, Ron Wyatt, organised repeated dives in the Gulf with depths ranging from 60 to 200 feet (18 to 61m) over a stretch of almost 2 miles (3km). He has photographed evidence of charito parts and human and horse bones scattered over the sea bed. The Gulf of Aqaba being part of the great Rift Valley is very deep but at this crossing point there is a submerged ridge bringing the sea bottom much closer to the surface. There is also a large beachhead at the start of this ridge called Nuweiba today.

The distance from Rameses in the Nile delta to this beachhead on the Gulf of Aqaba is about 200mls or 320 kms. The Hebrews left their homes on the 15th of Nisan (or Abib) and some scholars think they made their sea crossing on Nisan 21, the last day of Unleavened Bread. This would have allowed seven days for this journey. The seven days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread was instituted by God for His Hebrew people to remember and celebrate their exodus out of Egypt. The holy convocation held on the last day (Lev 23:8) would be a fitting way to celebrate the final day of the escape, the actual sea crossing. While most of the Hebrews, after their many years of slavery, would have been physically very fit, there would have been some elderly and sick amongst them and of course young children. But they had carts and beasts of burden to carry the less able. They also had God carrying them on “eagles wings” (Ex 19:4) and guiding them “by day in a pillar of cloud…and by night in a pillar of first to give them light to go by day and night” (Ex 13:21).