Biblical archaeology challenges skeptics to reconsider Bible's credibility, Dinesh D’Souza says

By Samantha Kamman, Christian Post Reporter Wednesday, October 28, 2026

Author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza argues that archaeological discoveries can help people better understand the Bible’s historical narrative, pointing to artifacts tied to figures in Scripture as evidence that supports its accounts.

In an interview with The Christian Post about his book The Stones Cry Out: Biblical Archaeology, Prophecy in the Last Days, D’Souza said he hopes his work will encourage Christians to explore the historical evidence behind biblical accounts and prompt skeptics to reconsider Scripture’s credibility.

“I think that the book is a real encouragement to the Christian believer and a sort of challenge to the skeptic,” the author said.

“And for the skeptic, I’m not asking you to convert on the spot, but I’m asking you to say, listen, you’ve got this dense biblical narrative. It’s got some theology. It’s got some miracles. And it’s got the historical narrative. Now, the historical narrative holds up,” D’Souza added.

“That is going to increase the credibility of the whole. So even though I’m not even trying to prove the theology or the miracles, I’m asking you to take more seriously this biblical account as a whole,” he continued.

Watch the interview with Dinesh D'Souza below:

D’Souza researched archaeological findings for three years and worked on writing the book to introduce readers to the artifacts and also "archaeological thinking” about the Bible.

D’Souza said he became involved in Christian apologetics around 2008. Asked how writing the book helped him grow spiritually, he noted that most of his debates with prominent atheist thinkers had centered on topics such as the big bang theory and evolution.

While studying at Dartmouth College in the 1980s, he encountered biblical higher criticism, a scholarly approach that questioned whether the Bible accurately recorded the events it described.

That approach suggested biblical texts were written long after the events they described and could contain historical errors or incorporate myths and legends.

The conservative commentator said discovering archaeology in recent years hit him like a “thunderbolt” because he realized some artifacts confirm even “the most minute things in the Bible.”

“I was like, wow, I think I underestimated the Bible,” he recalled.

In making the case for the Bible’s historical accuracy, D’Souza focuses on the biblical narrative from the time of Abraham and the patriarchs, around 2000 B.C., through the early Christian movement described in Acts, around A.D. 50. He separates that historical discussion from debates about creation and the Garden of Eden.

He argued that the Bible contains thousands of historical details that can be tested against archaeological evidence.

“The power of the book and of the argument, I think, is this: there are well over a hundred artifacts, actually several hundred, that corroborate the Bible in sometimes jaw-dropping ways,” he said.

D’Souza also discussed what he considers one of the most compelling archaeological finds tied to the New Testament: an ossuary linked to Caiaphas, the high priest involved in the events leading to Jesus’ crucifixion.

He explained that first-century burial practices sometimes involved placing a deceased person’s bones in a small stone box, called an ossuary, after the body had decomposed.

D’Souza said archaeologists examining a group of ossuaries noticed an ornate one bearing a name he identified as Yehoshaph Bar-Kiapha, or Joseph Caiaphas. He said the first-century box held the bones of a man estimated to have been about 60 years old.

“To look at a burial box containing the actual bones of the man who sort of put Jesus up on the cross,” he said, “I mean, all I can say is, wow.”

The interview also explored D’Souza’s interpretation of biblical prophecy, particularly passages about the Jewish people’s return to their ancestral homeland and events associated with the last days.

D’Souza said he approaches prophetic passages in Daniel, Ezekiel and Revelation cautiously and avoids assigning specific dates to future events.

Still, he argued that Israel’s founding in 1948 is a remarkable development in light of biblical passages about the Jewish people returning to their homeland.

He also suggested that the quickening pace of archaeological discoveries could have prophetic significance, perhaps drawing attention to biblical history in a secular age.

“Is God sort of trying to speak to us in our secular age in a sort of different language, not the thunderous language of Revelation, but the quiet language of the dirt?” D’Souza asked.

“And that, I think, does have some prophetic significance because I think it tells us that something different is happening in our own day,” he added.