Climatologists claim to have found Biblical plagues





Climatologists discovered a dramatic shift in the climate in the area occurred towards the end of Rameses the Second’s reign.


Rameses’ reign coincided with a warm, wet climate, but then the climate switched to a dry period.

Professor Augusto Magini, a paleoclimatologist at Heidelberg University’s institute for environmental physics, said after Rameses’ reign the climate suddenly rose which could have caused the river Nile to dry up.

These conditions would have been perfect for the arrival of the first plague, which Stephan Pflugmacher, a biologist at the Leibniz Institute for Water Ecology and Inland Fisheries claims was the result of a toxic fresh water Burgundy Blood algae.

The arrival of this algae set in motion the events that led to plagues of frogs, lice and flies.

This led to the fifth and sixth plagues which were diseased livestock and boils.

The last plague was an eruption more than 400 miles away which triggered the eighth and ninth plagues that bring hail, locusts and darkness to Egypt.

This eruption was Thera, a volcano that was part of the Mediterranean islands of Santorini, just north of Crete, which exploded.

Nadine von Blohm, from the Institute for Atmospheric Physics in Germany, has worked out that volcanic ash could have clashed with thunderstorms above Egypt to produce dramatic hail storms.

Dr Siro Trevisanato, a Canadian biologist who has written a book about the plagues, said the locusts could also be explained by the volcanic fallout from the ash.


Lastly the death of the first born was caused by a fungus that may have poisoned the grain supplies, of which male first born would have had first pickings and so been first to fall victim.

However what is strange is that all these plagues were only written about a couple of thousand years after they happened. The stories were written down by Jews in captivity in Babylon, and there are no references in Egyptian literature about them.