The Bible has been ridiculed and dismissed in recent times as inaccurate and unreliable. However, students of Biblical Archaeology have found that as the science of archaeology becomes more sophisticated, much more evidence is coming to light regularly that says just the opposite! Finds have been made that show us how historically accurate God's Word really is. Amazing discoveries are being made daily which prove that the Bible is historically accurate and that the scriptures are the inspired word of God. The following website covers many important archaelogical finds such as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the search for Noah's Ark. Amazing Discoveries This is also an excellent site, which deals with many of the major the bibical archaeological findings that I outline below. You are invited to examine the evidence to see whether the work of the archaelogist, confirms or denies the word of God. Light on Biblical Archaeology

Noah's Ark

The Ark of the Covenant, and the Holy Temple in Jerusalem

http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/ritmeyer/temple.ark.html
This small site has some great stuff about the Ark of the Covenant..remember the Indiana Jones movie?

Mount Meggido

Site of epic battles that decided the fate of western Asia, it became the Egyptians� first step to empire in the 15th century B.C.E., when Pharaoh Tutmoses III conquered the Canaan. Here was the center of Solomon�s administration in the north; here, too, the staging point for Assyria�s deportation of the people of the Northern Kingdom of Israel.

Megiddo, the only site in Israel mentioned by every great power the ancient Near East, appears in the New Testament as Armageddon, location of the millennial battle between the forces of good and evil. Megiddo�s military importance and long history as an international battleground is aptly reflected in the Apocalypse of John in the Book of Revelations (16:14-16). Armageddon (meaning "the mount of Megiddo") is designated as the site where, at the end of days, the demons will gather the hosts of the nations for the ultimate battle against the forces of God.

The Dead Sea Scrolls

Judeo-Christian Documents

• Over 20,000 copies of new testament documents exist.
• The next best preserved document is Homer's "Ilyiad" with 643 manuscripts.
• Aristotle's "Poetics." The oldest surviving copy dates 1400 years after the original!

Quotes

• Sir Fredick Kenyan. Director of the British museum, a respected authority on ancient translations said this of the NT, "Differences between the translations of the original [Greek] into modern language is minute as to be negligible.
  
• Dr Theader, a papyrologist greatly respected in his field said recently, "Based on my studies, there's no room for doubt anymore for the authenticity of the scriptures."

A sure foundation

Archaeology can help to make us realise the sureness of God's plan of salvation as revealed in his divine record. Just as a detective might piece together the evidence of a tyre print, an old bus ticket or some other apparently meaningless item to solve a mystery and reveal the truth, so I hope you will assimilate the facts and evidences available to establish in you a confidence that :-

But where does all this lead us? Surely it means that the proven accuracy of the Bible enables us to have every confidence in its inspiration and therefore encourage us to study its message of hope about the future Heavenly Kingdom. Just as archaeology is important to us, so is the Bible's message for all who will take time to read it, for it leads us to a complete understanding of God's plan of salvation for all humanity.