The raison d'être of biblical archaeology derives from its attempt to increase understanding of the peoples who inhabited the Holy Land.[citation needed] It allows an understanding of their history, culture, identity and movements.[citation needed] This may make it possible to know the exact location of the stories and to compare them with fact. Regarding this, Pietro Kaswalder has noted that previously the American and Israeli school of biblical archaeology saw archaeology as proof of the veracity of the biblical stories,[7] as can be seen in the work of authors of the stature of William F. Albright, G. Ernest Wright and Yigael Yadin. However, archaeologists today do not try to prove the stories in the Bible, but rather to discover the historical context in which it was written.[citation needed] Using this approach, introduced by Kaswalder,[8] it is possible to shed light on the following, according to the classification presented by the Catalan papyrologist Joan Maria Vernet:[9]