When we explore the written, artifact, or any other of the types of the recorded history of man, the Jewish history of the Old Testament is unique.  We don't have any other historical log that comes close to approaching it in continuity, or accuracy.

When archeologists dispute some town, king, or other ancient piece of mideastern data, it simply means they haven't dug up the proof yet.  So far, the accuracy of data in the Old Testament documents is exceptional.  Over and over again it proves itself a true account of history.  

In my lifetime, I have read a multitude of statements on how "this or that" is inaccurate.  Only to find a recant of that statement in a few years later when a piece of scroll, hieroglyphic, or stone engraving proves the accuracy of the Biblical account.  It is the most accurate writing we have from the past--by far.  Without question.  It is unique in it's historical accuracy.

Archeologists in the mideast kept a Bible in their hip pocket in the days before computers allowed them to pull up Biblical data.  It was, and is, that accurate.  So if it is archeologically accurate, we can also depend on it's social accuracy:  the story of the Jews.  Where they came from.  What they believed, and why.  Their prophecy of a coming Messiah--dozens of prophecies, that came true in the life of Jesus.  The statistical relevance of that is mind boggling.  He was born in Nazareth, he fled to Egypt, he was a descendant of David, and a dozens of other prophecies that were facts in Jesus life.  For those prophecies to cumulate in one man would be statistically impossible.  There statistically haven't been that many people born yet.  But they came true in Jesus.  He was the Messiah.  Sent from God to communicate with us.  To show us what and who He is.  He is God's communication with the world.