Gezer
settlement

Ngaahi feitu'u 'e ala 'i ai
- Tel Gezer94% falalaVakai 'i he mape
Kuo keli hake
The Amarna lettersLave'i 'i tu'a mei he Tohi Tapuc. 1360–1330 BC
The towns of the conquest narratives were real city-states with named rulers, writing to Egypt in the century before Israel first appears in the record.
The Merneptah SteleLave'i 'i tu'a mei he Tohi Tapuc. 1208 BC
A people called Israel existed in Canaan by about 1208 BC — named by a hostile Egyptian king with no interest in flattering them.