Bible Receipts
They Found King David's Name Carved in Stone
Critics said David was a myth. Then a rock showed up in 1993 with 'House of David' on it.
For most of the 20th century, a growing number of scholars were pretty confident that King was fictional. A legendary figure. A King Arthur — a nice story, but not a real person.
Their argument made sense on the surface: outside the Bible, there was zero evidence that David existed. No inscriptions. No monuments. No records from neighboring kingdoms mentioning him. For a king who supposedly built a regional empire, that silence was suspicious.
Then a rock showed up.
The Discovery
In 1993, archaeologist Avraham Biran was excavating Tel — the ruins of an ancient city in northern . His team found a broken basalt stone (called a stele) that had been reused as building material in a later wall.