Ancient texts come to life for students excavating Philistine ruins By Michelle Chabin , RELIGION NEWS SERVICE July 18, 2016 Bones of the biblical giant Goliath's people can finally shed new light ...

For centuries, the ancient Philistines have been a prominent, yet enigmatic, group in historical accounts, particularly in the narratives of the ancient Levant. Their true origins—whether they ...

Ancient DNA sheds light on the genetic origins of early Iron Age Philistines. Science Advances , 2019; 5 (7): eaax0061 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax0061 Cite This Page : ...

An international team, led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the Leon Levy Expedition, retrieved and analyzed, for the first time, genome-wide data from ...

After more than 30 years of excavating the remains of a Philistine city, a team of archaeologists says it believes it has found a cemetery belonging to the ancient people on the outskirts of Ashkel… ...

File photo: A 19th-century illustration depicts a scene from the Bible in which David defeats the Philistine warrior Goliath. A study of preserved plant remains found at a site identified as ...

The origins of the Philistines is one of the biggest unsolved mysteries in the Bible. AP “After decades of studying what Philistines left behind, we have finally come face to face with the ...

After analyzing the ancient DNA of 10 individuals buried at a Philistine archaeological site, an international team of researchers found that the Philistines descended from people in Greece ...

Sometime in the 12th century B.C., a family in the ancient port city of Ashkelon, in what is today Israel, mourned the loss of a child. But they didn’t go to the city’s cemetery. Instead, they ...