It took years and years for someone to acknowledge that David existed because of a written reference to him. The Tel Dan Stele in 1993.
I remember a Bible show with an episode narrated by Leonard Nimoy. Someone had found a small pillar with the inscription “a Jew worshipped his God here.” Which coincided with travel by Moses.
Hard to get written records from ancient times.
Sort of like the “George Washington Slept Here” signs scattered throughout New England here in the states.
Yes. Archeology means never having to say "never". Just because we haven't found evidence of something so far, doesn't mean it won't be found in the future. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
I remember a Bible show with an episode narrated by Leonard Nimoy. Someone had found a small pillar with the inscription “a Jew worshipped his God here.” Which coincided with travel by Moses.
If someone were to use that as evidence that Moses left that inscription, I would point out to them that at the time of Moses, no one was yet called a Jew. That term only came into use about 900 or so years later, after the exile of the southern kingdom of Judah. When they returned to the land it was called Judea and the inhabitants were then called Jews. During the time of Moses they would have been called Israelites.