Archaeologists as well as dunces and charlatans have searched all over for the remains of Noah’s Ark, or the ruins of Sodom and Gomorrah, or the lost army of the Pharaoh of the Exodus, and have found either nothing, or tried to pull off hoax after hoax.
Archaeology has turned up almost nothing at all from the Bible, but the Bible has been tapped for names of things and in the process undermined the facts on the ground on the historical annals aspect of the texts, and as a consequence undermined the believability of the whole work.
The name of an otherwise unremarkable and unattested group, the Hittites, was pulled out of the OT and assigned to some then-new discoveries in Anatolia. There’s nothing much about the Hittites in the OT, and the Anatolian group was a major power, but left no trace at all in the OT.
The identification of Ramesses II “the Great” was saddled on as “proof” of the Exodus, when in fact it is just the opposite, thanks to a corrupted timeline for Egyptian history. Insist that the existence of Ramesses II corroborates the existence of Moses or the story of the Exodus, and look like an utter dolt for free.