By Sharif Paget, Daily News Egypt Egypt has banned Ridley Scott’s film “Exodus: Gods and Kings” on the grounds that the film is historically inaccurate. The $140m Hollywood film is based on the book of Exodus from the Bible, which tells the story of how Moses led the Jews out of Egypt by parting the Red Sea. Egypt’s Minister of Culture Gaber Asfour was quoted by Agence France-Presse as saying the film was offensive because of its false portrayal of Moses, and the belief that the Jews built the pyramids. “The movie was banned due to [its]… falsification of the history,” said Mohammed Boghdady, the Media Advisor of Egypt’s Ministry of Culture. “It depicts the Prophet Moses as the head of Aaron’s army, not as a messenger from God, as well as the God in the shape of a little kid Moses asks for help.” Boghdady added that “the movie shows the Jews as the original builders of the pyramids, and that’s the furthest thing from reality”. The pyramids are said to have been built around 2540 BC, almost 500 years before Abraham’s time. Boghdady, in line with Asfour’s reasoning,…
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