Overview

• Michael Bar-Ron’s eight-year reanalysis proposes that a Proto-Sinaitic inscription at Serabit el-Khadim reads “zot m’Moshe,” or “This is from Moses.”
• The carvings, first recorded in the early 1900s at Mine L in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, date to around 1800 BC and represent one of the earliest alphabetic scripts.
• Bar-Ron based his interpretation on high-resolution photography and 3D scans of 22 complex inscriptions that have resisted consensus translation for decades.
• His advisor, Dr Pieter van der Veen, affirmed the reading, while Egyptologist Dr Thomas Schneider criticized it as unproven and misleading.
• Structured-light scans of the mine’s inscriptions will be released as open-access 3D models later this year to allow independent verification.