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Wind may have parted Red Sea for Moses: Study [1]

Washington: Moses might not have parted the Red Sea, but a strong east wind that blew through the night could have pushed the waters back in the way described in biblical writings and the Quran, US researchers reported.

Computer simulations, part of a larger study on how winds affect water, show wind could push water back at a point where a river bent to merge with a coastal lagoon, the tea

Publication Date: 
22/09/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]
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Red Sea [3], Wind Energy [4], Oceans and Seas [5], Water Resources [6], North Pacific Ocean [7], South Pacific Ocean [8], Research Agencies [9], Research [10], Mediterranean Sea [11], Nile [12]
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