Despite significant evidence, including Biblical, of Israel's long history, the tiny nation regularly struggles against revisionists to prove its legitimacy in God's Holy Land. This dig of a 3000-year-old fortress has already begun to reveal valuable confirmation of Israel's history, even though only 4% of the site has been excavated so far.

Archeologists found a piece of pottery with ancient Hebrew writing, the oldest ever found so far. In fact, it seems they have been finding far more material than is usual for such sites, probably because the site was not rebuilt in successive generations. If you want, you can even participate in the dig next summer. The fortress dates to the time of King David, an archetype and ancestor of the future Messiah. It was apparently on the front lines of the ongoing war with the Philistines.

The fortress of Elah overlooks the Valley of Elah, the site where young David killed Goliath, David was anointed to be king of Israel by that time, but had not yet taken the throne. (Saul was king.) "Anointed" is the meaning of "messiah", by the way. As 1 Samuel 17 records that the Israelites were camped in the Valley of Elah, it's reasonable to believe the fortress was not yet built when David took on Goliath but was erected later in the ongoing war with Goliath's immoral people.