Archaeology.

The Gospels say Jesus came "from Nazareth of Galilee" (Mark 1:9) and taught in its synagogue (Luke 4:16). It has sometimes been claimed that Nazareth did not exist in Jesus' time. In 2009 Yardenna Alexandre of the Israel Antiquities Authority excavated "a house from the Jewish village of Nazareth" of the early Roman period, and kokh tombs, rock-cut installations and Ken Dark's work at the Sisters of Nazareth convent add to the picture. Nazareth was occupied "during the late Hellenistic period, through the Roman period". The archaeologist Ken Dark calls the claim that it did not exist "archaeologically unsupportable". The village was small, perhaps "a maximum of about 480" people on James F. Strange's revised estimate, which fits Nathanael's scorn: "Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?" (John 1:46).