Digging to find hidden treasures was always a thing as a child I would always do.  Imagining that I could find some gold buried beneath the surface, and become wealthy overnight.  Now, is that a child’s fantasy or what.

There are people who dig in the earth, and find treasures.  Some of those treasures are not silver or gold, precious gems or metals,  but artifacts; jewells of history.  A woman by the name of Eilat Mazar, an archaeologist, has discovered the Wall of Nehemiah.  She has dated it using the Persian period pottery which was found under a tower of the wall.  Yet, there are some who do not believe that this is the Wall of Nehemiah, built around 445 B.C.  The Wall was discovered in Silwan, an area in the traditional Arab East Jerusalem.

She believes that she has also found the palace of King David from the period of about 1,000 B.C.

What I do not understand is why people want to place doubt upon the Scriptures as some of the colleagues of Eilat Mazar have done.  It tells in the article in Christianity Today, “Some archaeologists don’t believe that Jerusalem was a city of prominence during the time of David and Solomon, as described in the Bible.  One colleague called Mazar’s first discovery an ‘overblown claim'”.  You may read that report on the Christianity Today’s site.  The Bible will continue to be magnified by the discoveries of archaeology, and real science. 

It is on the Bible that we as followers of Jesus Christ can stand forever.  That is because, “Forever, O LORD, YOUR Word is setteled in heaven.”  Psalm 119:89 (NKJV).