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I don't think the two houses could have intermarried.

According to the count of fighting men, there were four or five million in the House of Israel. There is no indication that there were that many plus the House of Judah in Judea during Christ.

There would not have been much attrition of the Israel ranks of men, women and children over the centuries because they were on the northern boundaries of Assyria with small groups of other peoples to act as buffer.

However, old Assyrians records in the British museum indicate Israel did not go to Judea when they won their freedom from Assyria. There are indications they went to Europe through Turkey, according to records of sightings of people wearing traditional Israelite priest robes and headdress from Assyrian outposts (pictures were scratched on the tablets).

Just the combined population of Judea alone should discard the meeting of the two houses, I would think. Not to mention that Hosea 1:10-11 predicts the the two houses will reunite at some future time and get right with God.

There has been no evidence that that happened.

You are correct....plus the fact that it is no where mentioned in scripture that they returned.....while two entire books (Ezra & Nehemiah) are devoted to the return from Babylon of the Jews about 525 B.C. This would have been about 200 years after the Assyrian exile of Israel.

It is after the Babylonian captivity that the Books of the Kings and the Chronicles are written and the Southern Kingdom is hereafter referred to as Jewish. The Northern Kingdom continues to just be called Israel.

Remember.....during the first century Josephus records that the people of the Ten Tribes, beyond the Euphrates, are so numerous....they cannot be counted!

There are indications they went to Europe through Turkey, according to records of sightings of people wearing traditional Israelite priest robes and headdress from Assyrian outposts (pictures were scratched on the tablets)

I haven't read that. Thank you for posting it. There are also ancient indications of Israelite priests here in the United States. If you're at all interested I would look it up for you (I have a really bad memory) but the 10 commandments are carved in stone as well as other signs. One of the places is referred to as the "Bat Creek Stone".

Not to mention that Hosea 1:10-11 predicts the the two houses will reunite at some future time and get right with God.....There has been no evidence that happened.

Ez.37:22 also mentions them being reunited but it is yet future.