Ken, this might be seen by some ungenerous souls as you running away from substantive debate on the thread which you have initiated. You did start the ball rolling by giving the case of Gallio. However, you have not addressed the questions raised by Brian in message #2. Until you provide the necessary supporting evidence, you have only made a bald assertion.
What is necessary for you to give substance to this and any other claims of the like is:
the original statement in the bible;
citation of an historian / archaeologist claiming the statement to be false;
the current evidence which supports the bible's statement and debunks the skeptical historian / archaeologist.
That shouldn't be so hard.