According to Rahyafte(the missionaries and converts website):The story goes back to 1981 when the mummy of Egypt’s pharaoh was transferred to a special wing at the French Monuments Center, and renowned archeologists, surgeons and anatomists started to conduct a study on this mummy in an attempt to delve into its mysteries.
The senior scientist in charge of the study of this mummy was Professor Maurice Bucaille (1920-1998). While the processors were busy making restoration to the mummy, their head (Bucaille) was thinking otherwise.
The remains of the salt stuck in his body were shining evidence that he had drowned and that his body was retrieved from the sea swiftly after he drowned; it was also obvious that they rushed to mummify his body so that his body would remain intact.
But Maurice Bucaille puzzled over a question: How did this body — to the exclusion of other mummified bodies of other ancient Egyptians — remain intact although it was recovered from the sea?
Maurice was busy conducting a final report when one of the people working with him said that Muslims say that this Pharaoh did drown. At first, he vehemently rejected this and did not believe it, citing that such a discovery should be reached only through sophisticated, modern and accurate computers.
Another one accompanying him surprised him more when he told him that the Quran narrates a story that says he drowned and that his body remained intact even after he drowned. He got more surprised and kept on asking where did the Quran quote these data from while the mummy was not discovered until 1898, i.e. about 200 years only, given that the Quran has been recited by Muslims for over 1400 years, and given also that until a few decades ago the entire mankind including Muslims did not know that the ancient Egyptians had mummified their pharaohs?
He also studied Gospel and Torah but found no evidence about the body of the Pharaoh. So continued research in the Muslim world and faced verse 92 of Surah Yunus: “We will save your body on this day so that you may become evidence (of Our existence) for the coming generations; many people are unaware of such evidence.”
Maurice Bucaille spent 10 years conducting a study as to how far the recent scientific facts match that mentioned in the Holy Quran, trying to reassure himself that the Quran has never contradicted with any single scientific fact.
He shared his findings with people in a book titled “The Bible, The Quran and Science, The Holy Scriptures Examined In The Light Of Modern Knowledge.”
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