What the place was called 3000 years ago is irrelevant; today it's called Israel, and that's where the archaeologists have digged it up. The article actually sa

What the place was called 3000 years ago is irrelevant; today it's called Israel, and that's where the archaeologists have digged it up. The article actually says "modern-day Israel" and "modern-day Britain" in places. (Because, of course, 3000 years ago what's now called Great Britain wasn't called that either...)