Quote:You saying so does not make it so.
The proper way to say it is that "absence of evidence is not PROOF of absence." The fact that there is no evidence of a major imperial city in Jerusalem during the 10th century is absolutely evidence that such a city did not exist at that time.
If I assert that Martians landed in Las Vegas and built a combo taco stand and whorehouse my inability to produce any evidence is certainly evidence that no such thing happened.
Always in archaeology the next shovel in the ground can overturn the existing theory but that is not absence of evidence. It is finding new evidence.
