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sounds like a tall tale…185K soldiers hanging around to ‘siege’ a pretty small city of Jerusalem. That creates all sorts of problems like how to feed them, how to keep them focused / motivated. That many soldiers don’t hang around making siege like that. Only reason a king would muster (and pay for) that many troops is if they were meeting another very large army on a battlefield. 185K troops…is that every living male within 500 miles at that time? We’re talking primitive agriculture and herding economies.
Not challenging the archeologist found something, maybe what he says it is, but the number of troops seems a fantasy. Alexander the Great’s army was 50K men or less. I suspect they foraged on the stores of the cities / towns they conquered and had to keep moving to feed themselves.
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