9-27-2019 Assyrians Came, Conquered, and Kicked Everyone Out: Tablets Reveal 2,700-year-old Relocation - Philippe Bohstrom Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-tablets-reve2-700-year-old-forced-relocation-by-assyrian-conquerors-1.7906334

Two clay tablets found in Hadid recording loans and land sales in the seventh century B.C.E. indicate that most of the people living in the town, between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem today, were foreign, not Israelites, archaeologists say.  In fact, the former territory of the Kingdom of Israel may have had very few Israelites left during the 7th century B.C.E., archaeological evidence suggests...

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