Archeological Discoveries that Prove the Bible is Reliable

People mentioned in the Bible that are also proved by Archeological Discovery

2. Another palace found with reliefs of Tiglath-Pileser

3. Numerous cuneiform tablets including 2 King lists and the annals of Tiglath-Pileser.

2. Pottery jar at Hazor from the time of Pekah is inscribed with name APekah.

2. Seal with inscription Abelonging to Usna, "Minister of Ahaz"

3. Bulla with impression "Ahaz (son of) Jotham King of Judah"

2. Tablet tells of fall of Damascus and names Rezin.

2. Name found on boundary stone to date an event to his third year.

3. Bronze weight has inscription which contains his name.

4. Babylonian King list records him.

2. Extensive cuneiform texts tell about his exploits and reign (which include the annals & Sargon=s prism).

3. Fragment of stele found at Ashdod and erected after Sargon=s victory.

2. Babylonian chronicle 

3. King List A 

4. Numerous cuneiform inscriptions of Tiglath-Pileser III, Sargon II, and Sennacherib. 

5. Cuneiform cylinder written by Merodach-Baladar boasting of driving out Assyrians.

2. Sennacherib records shutting Hezekiah up like a bird in Jerusalem and twice more mentions him elsewhere.

2. Esarhaddon lists AManassah, King of Judah on Prism B which lists those who contributed material to his new palace. 

3. Ashurbanipal, on Cylinder C, lists AManassah, King of Judah as being forced to accompany him on his Egyptian campaign.

2. Commemorative stone tablet recounting the rebuilding of Babylon 

3. Cuneiform clay prism contains annuals of Esarhadden 

4. Bronze plague in Louvre depicting Esarhadden and mother Nagia 

5. Many other cuneiform tablets

2. Ruins of buildings with extensive sculptures at Ninevah

3. Annals of Ashurbanipal - clay prism

2. Ushabti

3. Bowl found at Persepolis bears name and titles.

4. Stele at Sidon with name in hieroglyphics.

2. Bulla in the collection of Shlomo Moussaieff. This bulla actually shows a fingerprint on the back.

2. Clay bricks of Babylon contain his name

3. Boundary stone from Sippar records land grant by Nebuchadnezzar

4. Business texts dated by Nebuchadnezzar=s reign.

2. Cuneiform tablets found in Babylon record rations given to "Jehoiachin, King of Judah."

2. Palace found at Memphis 

3. Vase has a painting of Apries head and name in hieroglyphics 

4. Stele depicts him making offering to gods.

2. Cuneiform tablet listing kings

2. Tablets tell that he rebuilt temples.

3. Cuneiform text tells of military campaign into Cilicia.

2. Nabonidus Chronicle - cuneiform inscription 

3. Cyrus cylinder 

4. Historical records by Herodotus and Aeschylus 

5. Tomb at Pasargadue in SW Iran

2. Copy of Behistun inscription found on papyrus at Elephantine 

3. Palace & Audience Hall at Persepolis with numerous reliefs and inscriptions portraying Darius 

4. Numerous cuneiform tablets 

5. Other papyri found at Elephantine

2. Palace at Persepolis portrays Xerxes on door.

3. Clay tablet archives chronicle his life.

4. Seals found in Egypt are inscribed "Xerxes, the great king."

5. Elephantine papyri dated by his reign.

6. Herodotus histories

2. Elephantine papyri use dates based on his reign.

3. Herodutus

2. Lihyanite inscription names Geshem along with the Persian governor of Dedan.

2. Scrolls found in Waid Daliyeh refer twice to a Ason of Sanballat   ... once in a sealing and once in an Aramaic test.

2. 20 inscriptions use his name & reign for dating.

3. Inscription at Khirbet et Tannur dates setting up of alter to his 2nd year.

4. Inscription at Madeba calls him "he who loves his people."

5. Coins with his likeness

2. Josephus

3. Coins that have inscription "Ethrarch" or "Herod" or "Ethrarch Herod"

2. Coins carry inscription "Herod the Tetrarch"
3. Inscription on Bronze Coins, ´Herod the Tetrarch´, ´To Gaius Caesar Germanicus´, AD 43

2. Inscription celebrating his birthday

3. Coins

4. Statuary

5. Contemporary histories

2. Ossuary found in Jerusalem in 1990 has Hebrew inscription that reads "Joseph, son of Caiaphas."

or

Herod Agrippa

2. Contemporary Roman records

3. Coins with inscription "The Great King Agrippa, Friend of the Caesar"

4. Basalt fragment of a Nabatean inscription refers to "Agrippa, the King" (Could be either I or II)

2. Josephus

3. Monumental stone inscription found in Beirut mentions King Agrippa and Bernice.

2. Coins with his name

3. Statuary

2. Contemporary Roman records

3. Coins with likeness & inscription "King Agrippa"

4. Basalt fragment (see Agrippa I above)

5. Monumental stone inscription found in Beirut mention's Herod Agrippa and Bernice.