Papyri have been found, verifying Luke's statement that there was a "first" enrolment
    (Luke 2:2), clearing what seemed like an historical discrepancy.

Papyri have been found, verifying Luke's statement that there was a "first" enrolment
    (Luke 2:2), clearing what seemed like an historical discrepancy.

Jesus was crucified "outside the city" (John 19:17,20; Hebrews 13:12). At a place
    called "The Skull" (Matthew 27:33; Mark 15:22; Luke 23:33; John 19:17). "Calvary" is
    Latin, "Golgotha" is Hebrew, for "skull". There is only one place around Jerusalem
    which has borne, and still bears, the name "Skull Hill". It is just outside the North wall,
    near the Damascus gate.  It is a rock ledge, some 30 feet high, just above "Jeremiah's
    Grotto", with a striking resemblance to a human skull. The traditional place of the
    Crucifixion is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. It is inside the wall. Prevailing
    archaeological opinion is that the wall is now just where it was in Jesus' day, and that
    the actual place of Jesus' Crucifixion was the "Skull Hill".

A tomb answering all Scriptural details (John 19:41) has been found.

Ephesus was excavated by J. T. Wood (1869-1874); British Museum (1904-1905);
    and an Austrian expedition (1894 and 1930). Ruins of the Temple of Diana were
    uncovered; also ruins of the Theatre in which the great Riot was held (Acts 19:29).
    Also they found remains of a Roman Bath, constructed of marble, with many rooms:
    steam rooms, cold rooms, lounge rooms,: an evidence of the luxury of the city. They
    also found a Temple which contained a statue of Domitian, the Emperor who called
    himself "God," who had banished John to the Isle of Patmos, and who was persecuting
    Christians while the Visions of the book of Revelation were being given to John.

Professor William F. Albright declared this to be "the most important discovery ever
    made in Old Testament manuscripts". Found about 1947, these scrolls consisted of:
    12 manuscripts of Isaiah, Chapter One and Two of Habakkuk,  fragments of the
    Hebrew Bible except Esther, 14 different manuscripts of Deuteronomy, 10
    manuscripts of Psalms, almost complete scrolls of Psalms and Leviticus, the Book of
    Daniel and more and have made great contributions to the study of the text of Samuel.
    Eleven caves were found with material from the same period as the original scrolls,
    coming from the last century B.C. and the first century A.D.

The 1947 discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Qumran, Israel, which included most of the Old Testament writings and a number of commentaries produced between 200 B.C. and 100 A.D., prove the accuracy of the Old Testament.  On a scroll which contained Isaiah 53, out of the 166 words in this chapter, there are only 17 letters in question. 10 of those letters are simply a matter of spelling, which does not affect the sense. 4 of the letters are minor stylistic changes, such as conjunctions. The remaining 3 comprise the word "light", which is added in verse 11, and does not affect the meaning greatly.  Thus in 1 chapter of 166 words, there is only 1 word in qustion after a thousand years of transmission and this does not significally change the meaning of the passage.