Secrets of the Bible - The Staff of Moses

the staff

both Moses

he'd created some of the most on
inspiring miracles

in the Bible

is a very powerful ritual instruments

enemies the Faeroe as it turned into a
snake

it was one of the first weapons of mass
destruction

it brought forth that great plagues of
Egypt

some kind of conduct for divine power

he parted the Red Sea

and drowned the fair was armed

but what happened to this instrument of
divine power

one man believes he knows what became a
bit staff with Moses

was the most powerful artifact in
history

he claims the famous step went through
ancient cities

and traveled the modern world

it might even have survived the tight
end and he believes

he knows where it is today it

could he possibly be right

Birmingham England the 1st January 2000
its Britain's second-biggest city

is also a gold mine libraries and
museums

and it's the home of one of the
country's most tenacious historical

detectives

ok on the first day of the new
millennium

Graham Phillips is pondering his next
challenge ok

Phillips is an investigator movements
he's tracked legends

from the resting place the Ark of the
Covenant

to the location of King Arthur's camelot
tales

other academics unwilling or even afraid
to touch

but the story Phillips always wanted to
crack was Moses

Moses he's the founder of the is where
night

religion

the character that seems to have started
it all

and so it was him but I decided to
investigate

Phillips was particularly intrigued by
the staff Moses

this dirty stick wasn't Justin ancient
walking

it was a weapon that could tame nature
and

bring an empire to its means

if this story of Moses is true then
Phillips believes

his staff could still be out there
somewhere

he's determined to track it down

I

Billups begins his research on

he learns that although Moses was a
Hebrew he was going back

morning Egypt no after his people had
been taken there to work

as slaves places both takes place in the
context have real danger and threat

in the land of Egypt

it

the Hebrew songs growing as people

and the Egyptian authorities think they
might

personal kind military threat

a death sentences passed by the Faeroe
on all Hebrew boys

am

fearing for his life

his mother hide him in a basket amongst
the reeds on the River Nile

the daughter the Faeroe we're told

found this baby floating in this little
basket in the bull rushes

and

decided to adopt him has her own son

so yes to a specter is not only a

some might say up hebrew feel like he's
also

an Egyptian Prince adopted into the
court affair

although he is raised an Egyptian Prince
Moses doesn't forget his Hebrew roots

one day he makes a decision the changes
his life forever

so much goes up

and he sees an Egyptian oppressing a
fellow pp

he steps and and here she kills be
Egyptian

mmm

fearing for his life months please

East my to the land of Midian

Moses spends the next forty years living
and hiding in the desert

on

as Phillips reads one day

Moses now in all men hears the voice of
God

your

while Moses is in the wilderness he
comes across

a bush which is burning but is not
conceive and

God speaks to Moses from the flames

he tells Moses to throw his staff on the
ground

miraculously it turns into a snake

God tells him to grab the snake

by the tail

incredible it turns into a staff again

it becomes Moses's

supernatural weapon

if we are to believe what we're told in
the Old Testament

the staff Moses was the most powerful
artifact

in history well

God tells Moses to go back to Egypt

and lead the Hebrews to the promised
land

vero refuses to let the Hebrews leave

some time and again Moses uses his step
to threaten them

macy s is a ritual specialist he pulls
out all source

magic tricks to try and intimidate fact
I

answer lenny is like people guy he turns
it into a snake

but then Moses says I can do far more
with this style of

with the star of he calls down

ten plagues upon Egypt I

dead fish dead cattle lice

fleiss and locusts Moses

unleashes plagues have hail and darkness
the state is systematically

dismantled

these plagues our the prelude to the
most terrible playing football

the death

the first born and it's at that point it
would seem that

fairness and finally broken finally

Ferrell relents

what the Bible calls

the exodus begins

the Hebrews are free at last

then vero goes back on his word

the Hebrews become trapped between
farrow's army and the Red Sea

once again

Moses's staff comes to the rescue am

it's the most awesome display of power
in the Old Testament

on

Moses uses his staff two-part the Red
Sea

the hebrews escaped

and Feroze arm used round by the
returning waters

following the parting of the Red Sea the
Bible says that Moses and the Israel

lights

would wander through the wilderness for
forty long years

only then

do they come through jordan to the very
edge of the promised land mine

my

but before he enters it Moses dice

up

as for his mighty stat

it vanishes from history on

on

for investigator Graham Phillips

the disappearance is one of the great
mysteries of the Bible

where on earth was the step of Moses

we don't know what happened in those his
staff according to

the Bible we can only issue that it was
buried with him

in most people

that could afford it were buried with
goods

in their graves is related groups have
grave goods

him little jugs there might be a dagger

beads necklace a scare above some
soaring

Phillips task seems clear find A Grave
Moses

and it's likely he will find the staff
aside Britain a few books about

searching for

mysterious gray use I thought why not
Moses

let's try my hand at finding

the grave but Moses do

Phillips assumes that the grade above
Moses must be somewhere near where he

died

but where exactly is that Phillips turns
to the Bible

it must contain record where Moses was
buried

the first reference he finds bluntly
stated that

no man no it that his Sepulchre unto
this day

ok

Phillips has barely begun his quest and
already he's hit a brick wall

he can't believe that the burial place
of Moses has been for gotten

ok

there are other places in the bible

but Phillips can look in the book The
Deuteronomy

and the book I've numbers

both contain the same promising lead my

they tell about the burial place a Aaron

the brother of Moses

twice in the Bible in the books have
Numbers and Deuteronomy

it tells us that Moses is buried near

his brother Abel the tech says

Aaron was buried on mount or it's
possible the brothers could have been

buried close together

now presumably Moses have to be
somewhere in the amount cool

fortunately phillips knows exactly where
mountain ordeal

to find a step he needs to get to Jordan

Philip drives from the capital among
South into the desert

the mountain where aaron is said to be
buried mount or is also known

as general her room

it dominates the skyline over jordan's
most famous ruins

the Rose City of Petra

on petra is wanna say

great ones the world I'll

fabulous wonderful temples and tombs cut
into this red

sandstone

and it's a secret place it's hidden away
you have to go down the sink this narrow

gorge to reach you

these amazing sandstone structures were
built by a civilization known as the

never teens

they date from the 3rd century BC around
a millennium

after the time of Moses

phillips's struck by the sheer scale of
the task before

I

the site issues it's like looking for a
needle in a haystack

Philip starts by looking for any
features in the landscape

that link this place to Moses suddenly

Phillips comes across 1d

mossad

it means

the valley Moses

there are Arabic traditions about Moses
in his last being there

the Petra did play a role in

the story of the wandering years between
Egypt

the promised land Saul Phillips could
indeed be following in the footsteps of

Moses

but are there any more landmarks that
tied his place to the stories of Moses

I'll

a little further on Phillips comes
across a holy spring

it's called the

team Moussa

the spring Okemos

and it said today where Moses struck his
stall

against a block to create a miraculous

bring so that the

is rights didn't die of thirst while
there wandering in the desert

confident he's on the right track Philip
still hasn't found

anything resembling a Hebrew break

he needs a more obvious clue like

memorial stone

but how wooden even know it if you found
it

I

my

I'm Graham Phillips is on a quest to
find a staff

moesha's

the staff Moses could turn into a snake
at will

by

at the foot of Mount hor Phillips looks
again at the Bible's reference to the

Bay Area love moesha's

the

you buy into detail he had not spotted
before by

Deuteronomy states that Moses was buried
over against

best P or

are Beth feel means

literal translation the house bath

I'll of the snake I'll but it can also
be used to mean place

all rather than just happens so death

pilau actually means the place

of the snake the book at numbers

is even more promising it says that

when the Israel lights were in the
wilderness Moses build

a magical icon of a snake

and Moses with the power cord house
power over this creature

home

he scours the ancient Valley searching
for images of a snake

ok

and then

in the shadow of Mount or Billups mines
an extraordinary structure

I

a massive statue I added shaped

like a coiled snake I was standing

as far as I was concerned at the very
place

where Moses was buried and

the Bible says that to this day no man
shall know

the place when their uses sepulcher
lives

and that I was at it

it have to be somewhere in that area
hours absolutely thrilled

it was the high point of my whole life

Phillips look

around for signs of the grave itself I'm

he's convinced the staff must be close
by

there are endless caves all around the
snake monument

Phillips is powerless to investigate
nevermind excavate

Petra his Jordans national treasure

he'll be in serious trouble if the
damage is the fragile sandstone

0 it's a frustrating

and to his quest

Phillips feels he's closer than anyone
else has ever been

to locating the grave Moses

the medical staff remains as elusive as
ever no

reluctantly he returns home

back in Birmingham Phillips wonders what
more you can do to find the staff Moses

my he throws himself back into his books

my only to find that his detective work

could be questionable his translation up
the key clue

Beth B or the house have the snake is
not shared by others

pay or certainly occurs in the Hebrew
Bible

in the world ball pay or Beth payable
how to pay your hand

gold medal my I don't myself do with any
word

the means snake looks anything like play
all frankly I'm very skeptical

in

the new Phillips can't answer the
skeptics

although by accident or design

he has identified several features in
Petra that tradition links to Moses

if he can search in the field he wonders
if he can find leads closer to home

in Birmingham's libraries and museums

his native town is a treasure trove
artifacts

and historical reports

did earlier explorers by chance find out
about the grave Moses

one account in particular

catches his eye

it's a description a strange to me

it's the diaries have two British
adventurers

the painter David Roberts and his friend

John Kinnear

they visited Petra in the nineteenth
century

a journey captured in Roberts landscapes

and I discovered that in 1839

they went to excavate various old tunes

in Petra in Jordan 0

it appears that the men explored behind
the snake monument

and discovered the tomb

according to Phillips can near in
Roberts didn't think the tomb was

anything special home

Phillips reads on to see if the
explorers found any trace of a body

ok

but no human remains were discovered

just as bill it is about to put the
report away

he notes that they did find something

it's not a skeleton

it's better than that

up black painted wouldn't step

the star could very well have been the
star of

that Moses had with which she parted the
Red Sea

but what did they do

with the step

July 3rd 2000 0

it's been six months since Graham
Phillips began his quest to find the

staff Moses

I'll

now thanks to nineteenth century
adventurers Roberts engineer's report

said Petra

at last he's picked up a scent

it's now a matter of seeing where the
trail takes him

the he starts to put together the pieces
of the puzzle

to try and trace what happened to the
staff

it appears that can near does bring the
staff back to England

but it doesn't stay with can near for
long

Phillips says the staff falls into the
hands of John Wilson

a collector and antiquities

Phillips believes that Wilson then sells
the staff

to the your love Devon he keeps it at
his estate at powder in Castle

in the South West England

then in early nineteen twelve the status
on again

this time to a mister Stanley men an
American collector and antiquities

according to the diary

all lady Devin at that time an American
businessman and friend of the family by

the name and Stanley Maggie

came to stay and had

a considerable interest in a number at
the artifacts

work toward death possessed

and wanted the artifacts that he let him
have was this

star of Phillips is now trace the staff
all the way from Petra in 1839

to south hampton in 1912

it seems that on the 10th of people 1912
may takes this step and his other

treasures

and boards a ship bound for the United
States

then Phillips makes an extraordinary
discovery

this is the ship's first journey it is
also

its last

the

unfortunately just an email the ship
which hit reason to travel on

was the Titanic I'll

on

when i trace the staff to the Titanic a
new where the Titanic ended a

and I thought that's it have traced it
so far

and it's at the bottom of the Atlantic
on they'll

villas now faces a new question

what happened to them a family did they
survived

and did they have the staff with them

hoping against all Phillips checked the
records

he knows the odds are low

all the more than 2,000 people on the
Titanic two-thirds

drowned

and only 700 survivors were picked up by
the rescue ship carpeted

the main family is not mentioned in the
list of survivors

he turns to the list of the dead

notices something strange there is no
record of the main family

among the dead either the

good to me somehow escape this infamous
tragedy

Phillips discovers that the maze were
not on board the ship sank

well incredibly luckily Stanley May was
in fact

not bound for New York himself although
the Titanic was

good

they disembarked at Queenstown because
it was their intention to have

a week's driving touring holiday in
southern island

in Stanley me

and the famous step had narrowly avoided
in I see demise

so where was the staff now and

the

Phillips can't quite believe the turn of
events

the survival of the staff is a miracle
worthy of the Bible

the star had survived it wasn't at the
bottom

my apt to do Nexus to find out what the
May family

did with it the new

the lips is firmly back on the trail

a year after the Titanic disaster it
appears that many cells the staff to

Edward airton a distinguished British
archaeologist

airton dies in 1940

these artifacts are packed and shipped
away

to New York

they are gifted to the Metropolitan
Museum

maybe this step is in America after all

as Phillips read on he discovers that
some

artifacts were sent elsewhere

1 I'd does not cross the Atlantic it
stays

in England

a priestly stepped in

philip has astonished to discover where
the staff ends up

Birmingham you see

so I raced literally down the stairs

out the door across the courtyard
separating them

the libraries and museums up the stairs

and into the Egyptian gallery

it was it it was the star of the was
found next to the snake monument

in the eighteen thirties and it was
still in on public display

I mean if I was writing or my research
was

correct which I believe it walls then I
was looking

the star that according to the Bible

Moses a used to part the Red Sea

astonished is not the word I would use

knocked out is probably closer to it

on

the staff is a thing of beauty

53 inches long and painted black with
white hieroglyphics

could this be the staff Moses

the first step for Philips to translate
the inscription

it's not written in Hebrew but an
Egyptian hieroglyphics

that's when the doubts creep in

Phillips finds that the hieroglyphics
say the staff belongs to the butler

or steward the Feroz donor a man named
tooth more sense

the inscription makes no reference to
Moses and all

can read the inscription home the star

it's perfectly clear that staff belongs
to

I'm so Mickelson moser who's the butler
a royal princess

could this be a case of mistaken
identity

could Moses and tooth Moses he's the
same person

jerusalem

two-and-a-half thousand years ago this
is where the story of Moses

was written down

but

it was also recorded in the 1st century
AD

0

by the Jewish historian Josephus home

he writes that Moses wasn't just a
prince he was also

commander of farrow's forces

turning to Egyptian history investigator
Graham Phillips

discovers a commander who fits the bill
I was looking for a figure

that might fit with the character that
to see if this describes

as a general the was one

in 1360 the sea

he was not only a general he also

acted as the steward to the fair I'd

and his name was tut Moses

it could all be pure coincidence

with Philip spines and even more direct
parallel between Moses

and tooth Moses

the clue is in the story up the
accidents

of on

Moses led the Israel lights out of Egypt

across the Red Sea and into the Sinai
wilderness

for Philips it's the timing of the
accidents that's critical

many Bible scholars agree that it
occurred in the middle of the 14th

century BC

amazingly Phillips discovers that tooth
mo sis

may have left Egypt to I

and at exactly the same time in history
and

Phillips finds the evidence in a tomb he
believes was prepared for two

Moses the true home of tut moses

the stood to the Faeroe Hammond hope
that the full

was found by the Italian

archaeologist Giovanni belzoni

and the valley and the kings

according to Phillips

girls only noticed that the tomb did not
contain the body up to the mostest

Phillips interpretation a bill zoning
spine

is controversial

Giovanni belzoni my son did not find the
tomb

all princeton Moser

kelso's at an extremely good account of
his excavations

and we know exactly what tunes he found
and

a prince that Mosley wasn't certainly
not amongst them people who Saturday

that to Macy's to hasn't been found

a correct inasmuch as

the body of tut moses bedded in his tomb
has not been found

what has been found is a tune that had
been

prepared for hen ok

for for Philips the empty tomb of tooth
Moses

is a telling clue I'll

the discovery of a tomb which was
prepared for a personal

very high state s which was never used
it was never rolled

is assure indicator that the person

Dean disgraced in some way probably

exiled

0

the millage wonders if perhaps with
Moses

turned against the Egyptian gods I'll

did he drop to the moon god from his
name I'll

and instead as plain Moses embraced the
gonna be Israel lights

the dating him to Moses is vanishing act

is 1360 BC for many

the same time as the exodus or or

for Philips that is too much of a
coincidence

to there's no definitive proof

but to missus action the

lead the is when i touch to freedom not

their ears I'll pretty convincing
evidence

that their flight to freedom did take
place at exactly the same time Missy

disappears from history

it all begins to make sense

both men grew up in the royal household

both men were military commanders

both men vanished from Egypt at the same
time

for Philips they must be the same person

when I realised I was overwhelmed

Phillips is convinced that the staff in
Birmingham you sealed

is the staff Moses

but few egyptologists share his
confidence there was

a front strut mo OES who as an officer
in the army

however fat Moe's was extremely common 9
during the 18th dynasty

therefore farrow's have that name a
number prints in various snowballs not a

common as well

so it's often possible to

mistake one individual for one or more
others

Phillips is so convinced his discovery

he tries to enlist the support of others

he approaches the current custodians of
the staff Birmingham Museum but they too

are

unconvinced by Bill its claims the

curator's a Birmingham Museum now will

obviously not endorse the fact that this
is the start with Moses

that's fine but unfortunately

they have no record really pertaining

to that stuff going back much earlier
than

1950

the museum does admit that the stamps
early history is unclear

ok

in theory it could be a Victorian
forgery it couldn't beam that

robertson can and just made the whole
thing up

maybe they didn't even go to picture or
Egypt or anywhere else with all these

artifacts they came back with us older
people

Phillips wants nothing more than to
establish the truth that the staff

one way or another he wants a
radiocarbon test to determine the a Juve

the word

if the carbon dating

came up with the central date the
roundabout 13

sixty 1350 BC I think

people would have to sit up and take
notice

the this very well could be

the star of that parted the Red Sea

on

until the carbon-14 test is carried out

many egyptologists will remain skeptical
Phillips claim

dissertations which have been made over
this up as far as I can tell

based partly on misinterpreting

what some egyptologists have said and

on evidence which as far as I can make
out doesn't even exist

to made up but if he's right

and this step does date back to 1350 BC

just maybe this museum holds one of the
most prized relics

in the world if I was to be asked the
question

house you found the staff with Moses

my heart held aren't sir

would be yes

to some The Adventures a this step

seen almost as miraculous as those a
biblical staff love most

I'm good this death have more surprises

in store