>>19576193There's a reason the Jews promote the idea that these tribes were "lost", because once you unearth all the artifacts and monuments and translate the cuneiform script, there's a clear line from the 10 lost tribes of Israel all the way to the modern Europeans of today.
In other words, they aren't the only people with history in the region, and in most cases they aren't even Israelites, not even derived from the tribe of Judah. They are predominantly Edomites from Idumea who took over the Judahites before Jesus's birth under King Harod, who replaced the entire Judahite royal line with his own family line. These modern Jews were actually Edomites who were force-converted into Hebraism under John Harcanus I, and a century later under Herod they captured the original "Jews", practicing Hebraism only publicly while retaining their real Babylonian Talmudist beliefs privately. They are history's greatest LARPers and We Wuzzers.