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>> yes. >> when was the last time someone was kidnapped? >> yesterday night. >> yesterday night. >> okay. are you nervous, kids? okay. so why are we stopping? >> suddenly our driver pulled over in the middle of nowhere to have a chat with a local bedouin. it seems out here in the desert everyone knows one another and gossip travels fast. >> what does he say? >> he told me the road now until now it's okay and don't worry and if anything happens contact us and we'll negotiate everything. don't worry. >> we're safe? >> yeah. we are safe. >> so with our peace of mind restored we arrived at st. cat...

A mountaintop in the center of the walled old city. it is a storied place, layered with spiritual meaning and now dominated by the golden dome and a muslim mosque. but just a short walk away outside the city walls a picture is emerging of the ancient and humble beginnings of jerusalem, which the bible says was founded by solomon's father, david. >> the city of david was a rather small settlement, hardly can be termed as a city. most probably unfortified. but it was here somewhere. >> reporter: we met doron ben ami, an israeli archaeologist who leads a team digging for evidence of the original ...

To crush them. >> prophet david does win against the goliath. it's not only about him but the underprivileged, the underdog. the weak is rendered victorious ultimately. >> reporter: according to the bible, david's triumph continued. he recaptured the ark of the covenant from the philistines. it had held the ten commandments. and he brought together the warring tribes of the 12 sons of jacob to form a nation. even today the flag of modern israel, founded 3,000 years after his reign, bears the symbol known as the star of david. and jerusalem is the place he chose as his capital, making it not on...

Pharaoh and names the cities that they were put to work in, and one of them is ramses. so it's a real place. those kinds of clues make one think, well, maybe there really is something to placing this exodus in that time period. >> coming up -- did the red sea really part? and what was the root of the exodus? wait until you see what we discovered on our journey. when "back to the beginning with christiane amanpour" returns. wait until you see what we wait until you see what we

You cannot dig anywhere in egypt and not find something. that's the truth. >> reporter: but bryan told us there was one place we might find a small clue as to what happened to the biblical israelites. so we left luxor and headed north to cairo. just across the street from tahrir square, the birthplace of egypt's recent revolution, there's the egyptian museum, where you can find a treasure trove of ancient artifacts, among them one that may prove that once upon a time the ancient israelites were here. >> we're going to take a journey back in time? >> yes. travel to unravel. >> travel to unravel...