***Archeologists have discovered a second great temple not far from Jerusalem***
This is news? I thought most bible students knew of the temple on Mt Gerizim.
This is the mountain the Samaritan woman pointed to when she talked with Jesus and said ....
Jhn 4:20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
Samaria's history has was not "edited out." Anyone who actually reads the Bible knows these people were descendant of peoples the old Assyrian Empire (Sargon II, I believe) forcibly moved in to populate an area formerly belonging to the Kingdom of Israel, after they were conquered and carried off to Media in the late 8th century BC, leaving Judea a client state, more or less, until the neo-Babylonians, in turn, conquered Jerusalem, what... eighty years later?
Like Stalin, shuffling tribes around was SOP for the Assyrians, 2800 years ago.
Don't you just love these presumptuous reporter types making loud talk about things they know nothing about?