You have to define "little."
Towards the end of the 10th century we have the temple inscription of Sheshonq I at Karnak which describes his campaign into Palestine and which lists a number of towns he "captured." We also have archaeology which can date destruction layers at some of those sites which confirms that someone attacked at roughly the right time.
We have archaeological evidence of growth in the northern kingdom, later called the House of Umri (Omri) by the Assyrians. Some minor inscriptions have been recovered from Tel Rehov in the Beth Shean valley. The site was apparently taken over by the Phoenicians when the Egyptians withdrew from Beth Shean in the mid 12th century. Since everyone used the sme general script it is impossible to tell what the letters mean without knowing what dialect was in use.
But we still have no evidence of a significant town located near what is now called Jerusalem in the 10th-9th centuries and archaeological surveys have shown that all of Judah was a poverty-stricken region of a few hamlets and villages with a population mainly of pastoralists.
Again, I heartily recommend The Bible Unearthed as a primer on archaeology.
Towards the end of the 10th century we have the temple inscription of Sheshonq I at Karnak which describes his campaign into Palestine and which lists a number of towns he "captured." We also have archaeology which can date destruction layers at some of those sites which confirms that someone attacked at roughly the right time.
We have archaeological evidence of growth in the northern kingdom, later called the House of Umri (Omri) by the Assyrians. Some minor inscriptions have been recovered from Tel Rehov in the Beth Shean valley. The site was apparently taken over by the Phoenicians when the Egyptians withdrew from Beth Shean in the mid 12th century. Since everyone used the sme general script it is impossible to tell what the letters mean without knowing what dialect was in use.
But we still have no evidence of a significant town located near what is now called Jerusalem in the 10th-9th centuries and archaeological surveys have shown that all of Judah was a poverty-stricken region of a few hamlets and villages with a population mainly of pastoralists.
Again, I heartily recommend The Bible Unearthed as a primer on archaeology.
