Parting of the Red Sea. Illustration showing how a strong wind from the east could push back waters from two basins, a lagoon (left) and a river (right), to create a temporary land bridge. It has been proposed that such a process could have led to a parting of waters similar to the description in the biblical account of Moses parting the Red Sea. This scenario supposes that it was not actually the Red Sea that was parted, but the Lake of Tanis, a coastal lagoon north of the Red Sea that was fed by the Nile Delta.