#1 ARCHEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE PROVES NO "LOST" TRIBES OF ISRAEL
Professor Israel Finkelstein estimated that only 1.25 percent of the total population got deported.
In his 2001 book "The Bible Unearthed: Archeology's new Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of its Sacred Texts", Israeli archeologist Prof Israel Finkelstein estimated that only about 40,000 Israelites actually got resettled away from their homes in the two major deportations under Tiglath-Pileser III, Shalmaneser V, and Sargon II.
#3 THE OLD TESTAMENT PROVES NO "LOST" TRIBES OF ISRAEL
Some time after the fall of Samaria, the Judean king Hezekiah held a great Passover festival at Jerusalem. But, 2 Chronicles 30 and 2 Chronicles 34 show that ALL the Twelve Tribes were still intact when this festival took place.
2 Chronicles 30:1-11 explicitly lists Israelites (of the north) who had been spared by the Assyrians, i.e. members of the tribes of Dan, Ephraim, Manasseh, Asher, and Zebulun in particular. It also reports that members of three of those (Manasseh, Asher, Zebulun) returned to worship at the Temple in Jerusalem at that time.
2 Chronicles 34:9 states that, one century later, Judean king Josiah received money for repairing the Temple from "Manasseh and Ephraim, and the ENTIRE remnant of Israel". This passage strengthens yet more the inference that there had been no wholesale "mass deportation" of "ALL Ten Tribes", but rather only of a tiny minority thereof.
#4 THE NEW TESTAMENT PROVES NO "LOST" TRIBES OF ISRAEL
The New Testament ALSO proves the "Ten Lost Tribes" mythology to be wrong.
In Acts 26:7, Saint Paul speaks of "Our Twelve Tribes" as being united in common worship (i.e. none "lost").
Also, Rev 7:4 states: "And I heard the number of those who were sealed. One hundred and forty-four thousand of ALL the tribes of the children of Israel were sealed". So yet again, the New Testament reiterates no "lost" tribes.