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Video, video showing isis destroying valuable meaningful items, historic artifacts. give us some context. >> reporter: this was video that was posted on the internet this afternoon. and what you see is -- first of all, there's a man who explains why they're doing it. he says that these artifacts, these idols these statutes that god has ordered them to be destroyed. and he says he must destroy them even if they're worth billions of dollars. then you see one statute after another on pedestals being smashed to the ground into pieces. then you see other men with sledgehammers breaking them up. the...

Changing, and people's ideas keep changing as a result of archaeology and historical study. >> so there are always surprises. >> there are always surprises. >> reporter: and that's exactly what bryan and her team have been finding. amidst the ruins of a temple that was used during the biblical time of moses. >> how significant is this dig? >> this is where the workers worked and also where they lived. because we have a temple over here but you also have to have things like bread making, beer making. but surprise is that this year we started to get a lot of human beings. they are probably the p...

>> and each victor would build on top of their vanquished foe, providing finkelstein and his crew with an abundance of evidence from 1200 to 700 b.c. >> so we're talking about what, 500 years -- >> 500 years. >> the turbulent period of king david and king solomon as well as their heirs. >> in these 500 years there were four major destruction layers at megiddo because of big wars. >> reporter: the wars brought turmoil. >> rioting broke out. >> reporter: think of america in the 1960s. and at times like these amid the unrest and confusion there are always a few distinctive voice that's capture th...

He said he got a hold of an an can't tablet that dates back as far as back as 1700 b.c.. that's older than the book of genesis. according to this tablet, noah's arc was round, the blueprint calls for the ship to be a doughnut shape about the size of one and a half football fields with a tall skyscraper like cabin to hold the animals. the arc was made out of coil ropes, made out of palm fiber. it's one of the most important human documents ever discovered. i know you were lost after i said doughnuts. isn't that cool? round. fascinating stuff. >> fascinating. absolutely. so you probably noticed ...

>> and each victor would build on top of their vanquished foe, providing finkelstein and his crew with an abundance of evidence from 1200 to 700 b.c. >> so we're talking about what, 500 years -- >> 500 years. >> the turbulent period of king david and king solomon as well as their heirs. >> in these 500 years there were four major destruction layers at megiddo because of big wars. >> reporter: the wars brought turmoil. >> rioting broke out. >> reporter: think of america in the 1960s. and at times like these amid the unrest and confusion there are always a few distinctive voice that's capture th...