Found? King Solomon's Mines  

Ancient Egyptian artifacts—a scarab and an amulet—were found in a layer of the dig that coincided with a serious disruption in copper production, at the end of the 10th century BCE. That was also the time when Pharaoh Sheshonq I, whom the Bible calls Shishak, mounted a military campaign after Solomon’s death to crush economic activity in the area.

“We can’t believe everything ancient writings tell us,�?Levy said. “But this research represents a confluence between the archaeological and scientific data and the Bible.�?It remains to be seen whether other scholars in the notoriously disputatious field of biblical archaeology agree, of course, but for now Levy and his team are pressing on. They hope to figure out who actually controlled the copper industry at Khirbat en-Nahas: David and Solomon, or Edomite leaders?

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/labnotes/archive/2008/10/27/the-real-life-king-solomon-s-mines.aspx

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{ This brings back memories of Bible storybooks I used to read as a little girl. For some reason I envisioned King Solomon's mines to be full of treasures, gold, silver, diamonds and precious jewels, guarded by giant, half naked Nubian's with shaved heads and handling huge Scimitars. The colorful Bible comic's I read shaped my sense of reality and those images are still with me to this day. They of course have nothing to do with reality. Reality is an old copper mine.

We all know how powerful a tool propaganda can be when dealing with children and teenagers. As the Jesuits are fond of saying "Give me the child and I will give you the adult". I believe this is one of the reason that religious folks want "Creationism" and it's stillborn twin "Intelligent Design" taught in our public schools next to or in place of science. They want religious control over children's minds.

They could teach their children Creationism in their own homes, private schools and churches but that it seems is not enough. They want control over other peoples children as well. Some of these people love to rant about Christ being taken out of Christmas and how the secular humanist atheists have declared war on Christians. What right do these horrible people have to do such things they scream. Yet they think they have the right to proselytize to other people's children in our public schools?

Personally....I have no problem with Christmas being a religious holiday. I always say "Merry Christmas" and never "Happy holidays" or "Merry Xmas". I even go to Midnight mass once in a while as I love the ceremony and the singing. Christmas and Easter are traditional Christian holidays and I respect them as such even though I am an atheist. Public schools are for education and not for proselytizing or the spreading of religious propaganda. Why can't these people give our public schools and their traditions the same respect?}