The Philistines have been described as probably the biggest villains of the Hebrew Bible. Likely originating in Crete, they ...

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 ...

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 Philistines’ reputation as a hostile, war-mongering, hedonistic tribe became so pervasive that “philistine” is still sometimes lobbed as an insult for an uncultured or crass person.

The ancient Philistines — famous for their appearances in the Hebrew Bible, including the story of David and the giant Philistine Goliath — weren't local to what is now modern-day Israel.

The Philistines lived in the region between the 12th and 7th centuries B.C. But scholars say they're trying to get beyond the one-sided account of the Philistines.

The Philistines have been “unfairly maligned” for thousands of years, as The Christian Science Monitor’s Peter Ford wrote in 1991, when he visited the excavation site of the ancient ...

They're one of the Hebrew Bible's greatest villains, but not much is known about the ancient Philistines. An uncovered cemetery, which researchers say is the first of its kind, could change all that.