Merneptah Stele (sometimes also called the "Israelite Tomb").

The name "Israel" is first mentioned in an extra-biblical archaeological and epigraphic find on the Merneptah Stele (sometimes also called the "Israelite Tomb").This is an ancient Egyptian victory stele erected by Pharaoh Merneptah, son of Ramesses II, and dates to the late 13th century BC (approximately 1208 or 1209 BC).The stele was erected to commemorate and glorify a military campaign of conquest by the Egyptian emperor in the Canaan regionThis inscription mentions the destruction of a group called "Israel", with the text boasting of the conquest and stating: "Israel is destroyed, he has no seed"In the Egyptian hieroglyphic script on the stele, a sign (defining) was added to the name "Israel" indicating that it was a group of people (a people, tribe, or semi-nomadic group), in contrast to the other fortified cities mentioned in the same inscriptionThe stele was discovered in the late 19th century by Egyptologist Flinders Petrie, and to this day it constitutes the earliest historical and textual evidence of the existence of the people of Israel in the land of Canaan.