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You know of course that there have been some scholars—and enemies of the State of Israel—who have denied the very existence of King David/Solomon and all those chapters of the Bible, saying they were simply myths.

But it seems like the more recent excavations keep turning up circumstantial evidence. I remember some dig turned up a seal of a bureaucrat in the service of a later minor king that referred to the House of David. Another dig is working on what may be David’s palace.

So much of Jewish history as told in in the Bible is related in some way to the reality of David. The Messiah was supposed to come from the Davidian line for example.

So the discovery of what could be tombs in exactly the right location described in the Bible could be one more brick in the wall of circumstantial evidence that the Bible actually records real events and people.