Egyptian dynasties typically tried to smash up evidence of the earlier dynasties they`d supplanted. Evidence of foreign conquests, like that of the Hyksos, was especially targeted for erasure. Defeats by foreign armies were seldom mentioned.
North Koreans and WWII Japanese, among others, have similar traits, but Egyptians more than just about anyone. So evidence would surely be scanty of a successful slave revolt and escape (like that of Spartacus, but successful).
Clearly the Jews supplanted an earlier population, called Canaanite, according to the archeological record.
For many centuries, most scholars were certain that the Trojan War was a fiction, mostly parable. Troy itself was just a myth. Then Schliemann found Troy, or the remains of a city that matches the description pretty closely.
It doesn`t prove the Trojan War happened. As the article suggests, many things in archeology are not easily verifiable, one way or the other. |
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