http://www.grahamphillips.net/Books/Moses.htm
If Moses existed he would be arguably one of historys most
influential figures - the founder of the great monotheistic
religions of the modern world. However, many historians doubt the
reality of the Exodus story and even question the existence of
Moses himself. In The Moses Legacy, Graham Phillips takes the
reader on an exiting journey into biblical times, using the latest
archaeological evidence as well as a new reading of the Old
Testament to recreate early Hebrew history. He not only shows that
much of the Exodus story can be corroborated, from the flight from
Egypt to the conquest of Canaan, but that Moses had indeed
existed.
Graham proposes that Moses had in fact been two separate historical
figures who later became confused as one. The first, the man who
originally converted the Israelites to monotheism, was a dissident
court official named Tuthmosis, who was banished from Egypt around
1460 BC, and the second, the man who confronted the pharaoh and led
the Israelites out of captivity, was an exiled prince, also called
Tuthmosis, who lived around a century later. The word Moses,
meaning "the son", Graham suggests, was a later shortening of this
original name.
Having identified the historical figures behind the Moses story,
Graham then leads the reader on a fascinating quest to discover the
very place the Hebrew religion originated. According to the Bible,
Moses first discovered God on Mount Sinai when he spoke to him at a
burning bush. Also called the Mountain of God, it was here that God
gave Moses the Ten Commandments, revealed the holy laws and
instructed him to make the Ark of the Covenant. It was here too
that God infused Moses staff with the power to bring down the
plagues of hail and fire, turn day to night, the Nile to blood and
part the Red Sea. Although, since Roman times, legend has
identified Mount Sinai as Jebel Musa in eastern Egypt, the Bible
itself does not directly say where it is. In modern times biblical
scholars have fiercely debated its true location, while historians
have doubted that such a place ever really existed. Now, by
cross-referencing various accounts of the Exodus story given in
different books of the Old Testament, and comparing them with the
latest archaeological discoveries from the Middle East, Graham
Phillips goes in search of the real Mountain of God.
According to the book of Exodus, when the Israelites arrive at the
Mountain of God Moses uses his sacred staff to create a miraculous
spring. The book of Numbers describes this same event but reveals
its location as being at Kadesh, today identified as a mountainous
pass on the boarders of the kingdom of Edom in southern Jordan. Now
surrounded by the later ruins of the Nabatean city of Petra, a
Bedouin shrine still marks the spot where local tradition has long
held that the event occurred. Above it, rises Jebel Madhbah, a
mountain that precisely matches the descriptions of Mount Sinai
given in the Bible. Here, a team of British and Jordanian
archaeologists has recently excavated the remains of an ancient
Hebrew sanctuary dating from the very time Moses is thought to have
lived. Remarkably, in the nineteenth century, a tomb was discovered
there that may actually have been the final resting place of one of
the historical Moses figures. Inside, along with other artifacts,
was a 3500-year-old staff inscribed with hieroglyphics identifying
its owner as the court official Tuthmosis, the very man Graham
identified as the first Moses. He believes that it was the second
Moses who was buried in the tomb, the staff having been inherited
by him when he became the leader of the Israelites. The staff is
now in the Egyptian gallery of the Birmingham Museum in England
and, after careful research, Graham is certain it is the actual
staff that the Bible asserts Moses used to perform the miracles of
the Exodus.
I read his book on the Ark of the Covenant. Very nice .. like
detective story .. and better than the Da Vinci Code. 
