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 ...

Photograph of infant burial at the Philistine Cemetery at Ashkelon. (Ilan Sztulman / Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon) (CN) – A team of international scientists have used ancient DNA to shed some ...

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SAN ANTONIO — A roughly 3,000-year-old cemetery on Israel’s coast is providing an unprecedented look at burial practices of the Philistines, a mysterious population known from the Old Testament for ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

There's no denying the Philistines have taken some guff over the past, well, thousands of years. After all, they're one of the Hebrew Bible's most infamous villains, seed of both Delilah's treachery ...

No one knows if the Philistines actually existed. They turn up in the Old Testament being a bunch of wankers to the Israelites and then promptly vanish from history. But something about their general ...