Wainwright Prize 2010 won by Sherborne Pupil

Sherborne is proud to announce that Ben Craw (U6d) has been awarded the The University of Oxford's 2010 G.A. Wainwright Schools Essay Prize. This competition focuses on Near Eastern Archaeology.

Ben's essay centred on the fundamental question of whether the Exodus did indeed happen. But interwoven into this was the notion that the chronology of the time might be 350 years out. Ben therefore looked for archaeological evidence in both possible chronological time periods and concluded that the Exodus probably did not happen but represents the general movement of Asiatics away from Egypt to Biblical Canaan.

Click here to go to the University's own page: G.A. Wainwright Schools Essay Prize

Posted: Thursday, November 18, 2010