I'm not a christian (any more), but I took it for granted that the story of the Israelites being enslaved in Egypt and being led out by Moses really happened. But I was browsing wikipedia one day and happened across this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exodus that says
"A century of research by archaeologists and Egyptologists has found no evidence which can be directly related to the Exodus captivity and the escape and travels through the wilderness, and most archaeologists have abandoned the archaeological investigation of Moses and the Exodus as "a fruitless pursuit"
Its kinda blowing my mind, and just wanted to see what you guys thought.
We get this one at least once a week here. If you do a search, you can find all the previous threads. However, quite recently there's been a lengthy and heated (and sometimes silly) debate on /r/AcademicBiblical over all this.
I've largely refrained from the debate; however I wrote a pretty detailed post series about how the original text may have intended merely thousands of Israelites, not the hundreds of thousands as we currently understand it (which we kind of tangentially revisited again here recently).