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 ...

The Greek word for Palestine, Palaistinē (Παλαιστίνη), is derived from the Hebrew phrase ʾEretz Yisrael (אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל), ...

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 ...

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 Friday Focus podcasts and heads up The Times of Israel's features. A groundbreaking new ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...