The book of Exodus tells us that the Israelites were slaves in Egypt. But does this match up with what we know of Egypt from outside the Bible? 

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Images in order of appearance:

- Pyramids, Osama Elsayed via Unsplash
- Rekhmire Tomb Scene facsimile, Nina de Garis Davies. Public domain, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
- Bubastis, Einsamer Schütze, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
- Nile Delta satellite images, stuart Rankin via Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0
- The Nile, Adobe Stock Image, Standard License
- The Nile with buildings, LBM1948, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
- Facsimile of sculptors at work on walls of Rekhmire Tomb, painted by Nina de Garis Davies, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, public domain
- The Sphinx in front of the Pyramids of Giza, Alex Azabache via Unsplash
- Boy making traditional adobe mud bricks, Adobe Stock standard License
- mud bricks at the Temple of Karnak, Egypt, by Michael Lusk via Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0
- Mud and straw bricks, Randall Niles on Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0
- straw, Lena Myzovets via Unsplash
- Mud and straw bricks drying in sun, Adobe stock standard license
Rekhmire Tomb Aerial View, Kingtut at Hungarian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
- Rekhmire Tomb entrance, Richard Mortel on Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
- Inside Rekhmire's Tomb (TT 100), Elias Rovielo on Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
- Brick making image from Rekhmire's tomb, General Research Division, The New York Public Library. (1849 - 1856). Neues Reich. Dynastie XVIII. Theben [Thebes]: aus einem Grabe von Abu el Qurna. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/i...
- Rekhmire Tomb facsimile, Nina de Garis Davies. Public domain, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.