ACCURATE HISTORY

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Archaeology

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ARCHAEOLOGY 

• The Hittites

The Bible mentions a nation called the Hittites. It suggested that they lived 4,000 years ago.

(Genesis 23:10). Archaeologists and historians, for hundreds of years said: ‘The Bible is wrong. It cannot be God’s book because there is a mistake. There is no evidence of there ever being a people called the Hittites.
No buried cities, no documents mentioning them, nothing at all.’
Because there was no evidence, they didn’t believe that the Bible could be right. Even the Encyclopaedia Britannica had nothing in about Hittites.

Then, an archaeologist discovered an ancient  slab with writing on it. This mentioned that someone had had a battle with a nation of people called Hittites! The Bible was right!  The following edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica contained lots if information about this people!

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• Egyptian Bricks

Perhaps you remember the Bible story of  when the Israelites were slaves in Egypt? God sent Moses to help them escape.

But Pharaoh got really angry. He forced the slaves to make bricks with clay and straw, then he made it harder by letting them use only stubble ( small, left over pieces of straw) with the clay.
Finally, they had only clay and nothing else. 

For a long time, some people claimed that this part of the Bible was not real history at all, but just pretend stories. But one archaeologist proved that even tiny details, like the story of the bricks, were true.
He discovered an ancient building in Egypt, in the city of Pithon. The bottom of the walls used proper bricks, made of mud and straw. Further up the wall, middle layers were of bricks with mud and stubble.  The archaeologists discovered that some of the stubble had been torn up by the roots!  That is just what might have happened if a slave was rushing to make the quota of bricks that day. The top layers of bricks had no straw at all. They were just mud – exactly as the Bible recorded it!  

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• Jericho

The Bible tells how God, by a miracle, made the walls of Jericho fall down. Joshua and the army of Israelites were able to rush into the city and gain a victory.

Archaeologists have discovered that the ruins of Jericho prove that the walls fell down – but not inwards, as if the army had battered them in.  The bricks and rubble show that the walls fell outward!  That was a miracle!  No people would want to push their own city walls down from inside the city!

The archaeologists also found, inside the ruined city, pots full of grain.  That proved that the city was not besieged and the people were not starved into defeat.  The only explanation is that the Bible is right!  The collapse of the walls and the defeat of Jericho was sudden. 

These examples show that just because we have no evidence for certain things the Bible says, it doesn’t mean it is wrong, or untrue.   

Click here if you would like to visit another web site which shows how Archaeology is a great help to us in proving that the Bible does not make mistakes.

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