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It has been a few years since the discovery of a Philistine cemetery in Ashkelon, Israel, that would hopefully give more answers about their origins. This post summarizes information from the latest official announcements. Continue reading “The Philistines; an Aegean population”
After all these centuries of calumny, the Philistines are finally having some good things said about them. They were not, it seems, deserving of that withering epithet: Philistine. Continue reading “The Aegean (Mycenean) origin of the Philistines”
The Sea Peoples who came to the southern Levantine coast from the Aegean and elsewhere 3,200 years ago sailed with pigs on board, says a new study. Continue reading “Genetic analysis of 3,000-year-old pig remains in Israel shows that they came from Greece”
An unrivaled discovery on the southern coast of Israel may enable archaeologists to finally unravel the origins of one of the most notorious and enigmatic peoples of the Hebrew Bible: the Philistines. Continue reading “Discovery of Philistine Cemetery May Solve Biblical Mystery”
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