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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 ...

Philistines have had a pretty bad rap. For centuries they have been a byword for the uncouth and the unsophisticated, as well as being the bullies who sent giant Goliath out to defeat little David ...

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 ...

Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, What Matters Now and The Reel Schmooze podcasts, and heads up The Times of Israel's features. A groundbreaking ...

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.

The Philistines were related to Europeans, according to DNA evidence in a study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances. Scientists looked at the genomes of 10 Bronze and Iron Age ...

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 ...

Discovery of 3,000-year-old cemetery in Ashkelon will dispel many myths and may force rethinking of popular insult Philistines were no “philistines”, say archaeologists who have unearthed a 3,000-year ...