The Philistines have been described as probably the biggest villains of the Hebrew Bible. Likely originating in Crete, they arrived in Canaan—modern-day Southern Levant—in the 12th century BCE and ...

In this sense, we are all here to dig wells, and as it was with Isaac, the antagonistic forces around us are perpetually ...

The ancient remains of 10 Biblical Philistines uncovered at an Iron Age cemetery are helping scientists understand who these people were and where they came from. The results potentially link them to ...

Rachel Kalisher, a member of the physical anthropology team, measures a 10th-9th century BC skeleton Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon Over the centuries, the term Philistine has come to represent a ...

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 dug a ...

The Philistines were a group of people who arrived in the Levant (an area that includes modern-day Israel, Gaza, Lebanon and Syria) during the 12 th century B.C. They came during a time when cities ...

ASHKELON, Israel, July 10 (Reuters) – Philistines were no “philistines,” say archaeologists who unearthed a 3,000-year-old cemetery in which members of the biblical nation were buried along with ...

A DNA study of an archaeological site shows the biblical Philistines, long vanished and derided as primitive, were originally from Europe. The Philistines, an ancient people described not so ...

Archaeologists in Israel have unearthed an ancient cemetery believed to be the final resting place of some 200 Philistines. They hope the bones will show a new side of the notorious biblical people.