Bible Mysteries

Joseph and his Multicoloured Coat (1x5)

: 22, 2004

The programme travels to the tombs of ancient Egypt and discovers wall paintings dating back to Joseph's time showing that people from Canaan did wear brightly coloured garments. It examines ice cores from Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and finds evidence of a great famine in 1650 BC. Could this be the famine that Joseph predicted? Finally, the programme talks to Austrian archaeologists who have found in a recently discovered tomb, statue fragments of a Canaanite leader. The site of this discovery was the ancient city of Avaris, which centuries later became the city of Ramses - mentioned in the Bible as the place where Joseph and his family settled.