[SunkenCiv]

The name Hittites was in fact taken from the Bible when the so-called ‘Forgotten Empire’ was discovered. There was a 19th c school of so-called thought that went so far as to say that the existence of Abraham had been disproven for all time, which is of course a profoundly anti-scholarly view. The search for Nineveh and other Assyrian cities mentioned in the Bible led to their discovery, and also turned up a large library of cuneiform tablets, remains of the much earlier Sumerians and an avalanche of other information that isn’t in the OT.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Siddim#Identifying_the_kings

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behistun_Inscription#Translation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform#Decipherment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineveh#Excavation_history

[daniel1212]

Now about those missing ballots..