http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-biblical-war-verified-earth-magnetic-field-1755492

A biblical account of an ancient Egyptian military campaign against Israel has been verified using a novel archaeological approach based on reconstructing the Earth's geomagnetic field from points in history thousands of years ago.

The research, which was published in the journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA), was also able to verify other Old Testament accounts of Aramean, Assyrian and Babylonian military campaigns against the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah.