Banana remnants in 3,000-year-old graves at Tel ‘Erani show the fruit reached the Judean coast by 1000 BCE, reshaping views on Iron Age trade and Philistine burial customs.

A major biblical mystery has been solved by scientists who have revealed Goliath's real height. The Philistine warrior, whose ...

One of the Bible’s deepest and most important mysteries may be about to be solved. Archaeologists appear to have found a cemetery belonging to the Philistines for the first time ever, along with ...

Ancient DNA may reveal origin of the Philistines. Historical accounts and archaeology agree that the biggest villains of the Hebrew Bible were ‘different’—but how different were they really?

Researchers from Bar-Ilan University shed “unprecedented light” on Philistine ritual practices, such as the use of plants with psychoactive and medicinal properties, through analysis of plant ...

The Philistines completely disappeared by the end of the 5th century B.C.E. It is no small irony that the Arab invaders to the Land of Israel have built up a mythology, inconsistent and absurd ...

Banana remnants in 3,000-year-old graves at Tel ‘Erani show the fruit reached the Judean coast by 1000 BCE, reshaping views on Iron Age trade and Philistine burial customs.