While in Babylon they renamed their calendar months after demons
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The Israelites (the northern ten tribes, including the tribes of Joseph) were likely dispersed with the Phoenicians and also the Germanic Tribes. They melded into other tribes and all but disappeared as a separate political entity. That said, the remnants of their traditions and laws are found all over ancient Europe. For instance, English Common Law has no historical basis. It has always existed, much like London. And English Common Law is clearly similar to the Law of Moses in the Bible, suggesting that the ancient inhabitants of the British Isles were practicing some form of legal code based on it.
The Phoenicians began with the Canaanites. By the time Moses leads Israel into the wilderness sometime around 1300 BC, they were already deep into human sacrifice, abortion, homosexuality, etc... When Abraham was wandering around Canaan in his time (2000 BC) there were the first signs that those people were going astray, and that's about the time that God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and the other cities in the area.
One of the problems you are running into is that archaeology is not a reliable science. It cannot tell us what did NOT happen, only show us artifacts that suggest something DID happen. This is important. For instance, for the longest time, we knew from history that the Huns were expert horse riders, but we could not find any evidence of horses in Hun settlements we dug up. Another example: King David was thought to be a myth until an artifact was discovered mentioning his name.
History is a much more reliable source than archaeology, despite the fact that ancient historians included unbelievable accounts of supernatural phenomena. For instance, the Sumerian records indicate that their first kinds would live for 10,000 years or more, which is hardly believable.
Ultimately, "I saw it in a dream" is the only real authoritative source. Either you can try to be an impeccable scholar, in which case you spend all your time telling people what you don't know, or you use history and religion as a guide to build yourself up and rely on revelation as a reliable source of information about the distant past.