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Abraham’s grandson, Jacob/Israel, takes his family of 70 members into Egypt from Canaan, settling in Goshen by the Nile delta. There was a famine in Canaan. There they remained until lead out again by “Moses.” In apparent confirmation of the Israelite’s sojourn in Egypt, the annals of Pharaoh Ramesis II (the Great) make reference to Semitic people who settled in the delta region of Goshen, but this does not really help because they are not specified as Israelites, but included in the Arab races of Syria, Phoeni- cia, Mesopotamia, and the Fertile Crescent in general. (p. 176) Recent analysis of volcanic debris in the area, utterly disproves the dates of the Exodus. The volcanic action was about 1624 B.C. This is 300 hundred years before the supposed time of Moses. (See p. 177) The Joseph of Egypt myth was actually based on Joseph the son of Jacob who actually lived 400 years earlier. The information about the first Joseph was concealed so that he could be identified as the one much later that became the Pharaoh of Egypt. (See p. 180) A later Genesis entry, which is seldom quoted, has Joseph saying, “God hath made me a father to the Pharaoh.” (Genesis 45:8) ...could not have related to Joseph, son of Jacob, who was sold into slavery. But was there perhaps a grand vizier who fathered a Pharaoh — a prestigious governor after whom a canal might have been named and who would have ridden in the king’s second chariot...Indeed there was: a vizier who, con- trary to normal custom, was embalmed like a pharaoh (precisely as described in the last verse of Gene- sis) and entombed in a fine sarcophagus in no less a place than the royal burial ground—the Valley of the Kings at western Thebes (modern Luxor). (p. 183) Egyptian tomb inscriptions usually relate, in one way or another, to the godhead under which the occu- pant was placed in life, using deiform names such as Ra, Amen, and Ptah. In this case, the unusual tomb inscriptions of the grand vizier do not relate to any known god of Egypt; they reveal instead such names as Ya-ya, and Yu-ya, —phonetically, Jouiya, which is akin to Yaouai, a variant of Yahweh or Jehovah. From these inscriptions, the vizier has become personally known as Yuya, and this is of particular inter- est because his grandson, Pharaoh Akhenaten later developed the ‘One God’ concept in Egypt. (p. 182- 183) Yuya (Yusuf) was the principal minister for the eighteenth dynasty Pharaoh, Tuthmosis IV (c. 1413- 1405 B.C.) and for his son Amenhotep III...His tomb was discovered in 1905, along with that of his wife Tuya (the Asenath), and the mummies of Yuya and Tuya are among the very best preserved in the Cairo Museaum...Clearly, this couple was of tremendous importance in their day; this becomes obvious from Yuya’s funerary papyrus, which refers to him as ‘The Holy Father of the Lord of the Two Lands’...as does his royal funerary statuette. (p. 183) Joseph was the chief minister to both Tuthmosis IV and Amenhotep III. His daughter Tiye went on to become the wife of the latter. 220 Appendix B: Book Abstracts Sojourn in Egypt Ramesis Il and Exodus Actually, they arrived many centuries before the reign of Ramesis I (1335 B.C.). The Joseph Myth (Yusuf) The Real Joseph The Inscription on His Tomb Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation