Carl Sagan famously said, “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”5 While archaeology may never provide definitive proof for the life of Joseph, it confirms that elements of his story—even tiny, easily overlooked details—are historically plausible. QUICKBIT: Amarna Letters The Amarna letters are an archive of around 400 letters from rulers of Canaan and Syria to Pharaoh. They were discovered in 1887 at el-Amarna—the site of Pharaoh Akhenaton’s capital city in the 14th century BC. The letters