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 plagues that ravaged Egypt in the Bible are explained as having resulted from that eruption and a related limnic eruption in the Nile Delta , similar to what occurred in the 1980s at Lake Nyos in Cameroon . 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
The Exodus Decoded