Israelite Archaeology
There is a lot of archaelogy mentioning Israel, Judah and the Kings of Israel.
1) The Mesha Stele, also known as the Moabite Stone, is a stele (inscribed stone) set up around 840 BCE by King Mesha of Moab (a kingdom located in modern Jordan). Mesha tells how Chemosh, the god of Moab, had been angry with his people and had allowed them to be subjugated to Israel.
2) The Kurkh Monoliths are two Assyrian stelae that contain a description of the reigns of Ashurnasirpal II and his son Shalmaneser III
The Shalmaneser III monolith contains a description of the Battle of Qarqar at the end. This description contains the name “A-ha-ab-bu Sir-ila-a-a” which is generally accepted to be a reference to Ahab king of Israel.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurkh_Monoliths
3) The Tel Dan Stele is a fragmentary stele, discovered in 1993 in Tel-Dan the pieces having been used to construct an ancient stone wall that survived into modern times. The stele is in several pieces and contains several lines of Aramaic, closely related to Hebrew and historically a common language among Jews. The surviving inscription, which dates to 9th century BCE, details that an individual killed Jehoram, the son of Ahab, king of Israel and the king of the house of David. These writings corroborate passages from the Bible, as the Second Book of Kings mentions that Jehoram, also Joram, is the son of an Israelite king, Ahab, by his Phoenician wife, Jezebel.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Dan_Stele
4) The Merneptah Stele – also known as the Israel Stele or the Victory Stele of Merneptah – is an inscription by the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Merneptah (reign: 1213–1203 BCE).
The stela represents the earliest textual reference to Israel and the only reference from ancient Egypt. It is one of four known inscriptions, from the Iron Age, that date to the time of and mention ancient Israel, under this name, the others being the Mesha Stele, the Tel Dan Stele, and the Kurkh Monolith.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merneptah_Stele
4) King Ahaz’s seal is a bulla (impressed piece of clay) originating from the 8th century BCE. The place of discovery of this seal is unknown, and it is currently part of Shlomo Moussaieff’s private collection. The seal contains an ancient Hebrew inscription mentioning the name of Ahaz of Judah, as well as the name of his father, Yehotam (Jotham), identifying Ahaz as the “king of Judah”. The bulla contains a fingerprint which may belong to Ahaz himself.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Ahaz%27s_seal
5) Sennacherib’s annals are notable for describing Assyrian’s siege of Jerusalem during the reign of king Hezekiah. This event is recorded in several books contained in the Bible including Isaiah chapters 36 and 37; 2 Kings 18:17; 2 Chronicles 32:9
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sennacherib%27s_Annals
6) During the reign of Hezekiah (c. 716–687 BCE) a notable increase in the power of the Judean state is reflected by archaeological sites and findings such as the Broad Wall and the Siloam Tunnel in Jerusalem.
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/hezekiahs-tunnel-inscription-0017684
7) LMLK seals (with LMLK meaning ‘of the king’) are ancient Hebrew seals stamped on the handles of large storage jars first issued in the reign of King Hezekiah (circa 700 BC) and discovered mostly in and around Jerusalem. Several complete jars were found in situ buried under a destruction layer caused by Sennacherib at Lachish.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMLK_seal
