[blam]

"If it's true that it happened in the early 1400's BC, this would corroborate the theory since the Exodus was probably about this time."

I read (somewhere?) that charred grain had been found above this ash layer and under the collapsed walls of Jerico. The charred grain dated within the 1628BC time frame. The accepted date(s) for the Exodus will have to be changed.

[what's up]

If the charred grain is under the walls of Jericho, that would mean a fire took place before Joshua. May not the fire have been in 1628? The Exodus could still have happened, thus, in 1440 BC.