Jacobovici suggests that the Exodus took place around 1500 BC , during the reign of Pharaoh Ahmose I , and that it coincided with the Minoan eruption . In the documentary , the biblical plagues of Egypt are explained as having resulted from that eruption and a related limnic eruption in the Nile Delta . While much of Jacobovici 's archaeological evidence for the Exodus comes from Egypt , some comes from Mycenae on Mainland Greece , such as a gold ornament that somewhat resembles the Ark of the Covenant
Minoan eruption
Minoan eruption
Simcha Jacobovici