Without question, it would stagger most evangelical Christians today to learn that the character of King David is a fiercely contested topic between secular historians and conservative scholars. Textual criticism has assailed the Bible’s account of David for the past century, alleging that the shepherd-turned-king never truly existed but was in fact a legend borne from Hebrew folklore. Since no evidence apart from canonical Scripture has been produced to prove his existence, so they say, many researchers have been quick to dismiss David as a fanciful myth without historical merit.
In the waning years of the twentieth century, however, approximately three thousand years after David’s rule of Israel, evidence substantiating the king’s historical genuineness was at long last unearthed by archaeologists in Tell Dan, located in northern Galilee at the foot of Mt. Hermon. To the astonishment of both detractor and devotee alike, archaeologists recovered from the desert sands three stone inscriptions concerning an Aramean king, a Moabite king and an Egyptian pharaoh. The extraordinary anecdote that each of these inscriptions told unnerved many who took a hostile approach to the legitimacy of the Davidic dynasty. The inscriptions, when translated in fragments, bore witness to the historical David. Spotlighting in particular the inscription relating to the Aramean king, it offered incontestable testimony to the "House of David."
But FOX News is now reporting that additional archaeological evidence has been unearthed in Israel further substantiating the historical record of David--not the least of which is David's palace!
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/07/18/archaeologists-say-uncovered-king-david-palace/?intcmp=features
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