Did You Know? - Was Mordecai a Historical Figure?

A Jew named Mordecai plays a major role in the events of the Bible book of Esther.  He was a Jewish exile who worked in the royal Persian palace. This was during the beginning of the fifth century B.C.E. "In the days of [King] Ahasuerus." (That king is commonly identified today with Xerxes I.)  Mordecai put a stop to the plot to assassinate the king. Out of gratitude, the king arranged that Mordecai be honored publicly. Later, after the death of Haman, an enemy of Mordecai and of the other Jews, the king promoted Mordecai to the position of prime minister.  That position allow Mordecai to issue a decree that rescued the Jew in the Persian Empire from genocide.

Note: Esther was Mordecai's niece whom he raised when Esther's parents died. Esther also had become the king's wife  previously and prevented Haman from killing Mordecai and the other Jews. These two were in the book of Esther in the Bible. 

Some early 20th-century historians  claimed that the book of Esther is fiction and that Mordecai never existed.  However, in 1941, archaeologists  found that what may be evidence that supports the Biblical report about Mordecai. What did they find?

Note: Of course he existed. Anything God  had his apostle write down in the Bible was accurately true!  

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