even the prettiest little towns disappear over time and soon nothing is left of their memory except what is dug up by those professionals who have made investigating the past their life's work.  Unfortunately, not all who investigate are believers in Jesus and we have to sift through their work to find the nuggets of gold to help our spiritual lives. There are many who say they are christians yet the preach a different message than what is found in the Bible and we must be careful not to listen to their re-writing of history but ask God to lead us through their words till we can see where they erred and avoid the same mistakes. One of the favorite strategies these people use is denial, if there is no evidence they say then the event or kingdom did not take place as recorded in the scriptures Yet K.A.Kitchen coined and made famous the phrase 'absence of evidence is not evidence for absence' and the truth of these words is borne out by the example of the Hittite Empire, long thought mythological until evidence was discovered in the late 19th century to verif the Biblical record and show the world such an empire did exist. We cannot let non-believers, their conclusions or theories guide our thoughts and sermons but we must remain steadfast in our faith that though their is no physical evidence to prove the Bible true, we still hold to its words by faith and regardless of what the non-believer does we stand with the Bible. The Bible is the only real eye-witness we have of all the events described in its pages and we must remember that God will not provide or allow physical evidence to be discovered that wil destroy faith but only enough which will strengthen our faith in Him and His work. We do not really need physical evidence to believe but we do need some to defend  what we believe, if only to demonstrate that faith is real and grounded in truth not theories or fiction. Here are some links to help find that physical evidence to make our position stronger:  http://www.bibleinterp.com/ ; http://www.biblicalarcheology.net/     http://www.bibarch.com/ ; http://www.harkarkom.com/ http://www.christiananswers.net/archaeology/home.html#general http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/ ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_archaeological_periods_%28Levant%29 http://megiddo.tau.ac.il/sciencearticle.html http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Steiner-10th-9th_Century_1.htm http://www.mega.nu/ampp/eden/roots.html http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1457410/posts http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/14/healthscience/snedom.php http://www.imja.com/Archeology.html http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=789534 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1162378414035&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull http://www.stanford.edu/~meehan/donnellyr/summary.html http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=23651 http://s8int.com/water1.html http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467792041&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa080700a.htm