Excavations at the Israeli site of Tell es-Safi have revealed the ruins of the city of Gath, which was occupied by the Philistines during most of the Iron Age (ca. 1200–539 B.C.)(Courtesy Aren ...

For over 25 years, archaeologists have been excavating the historic site of Tell es-Safi in Israel, home to the biblical city of Gath. New evidence uncovered at the site is shedding light on the ...

The Philistines were an enigmatic culture that flourished during the Iron Age in the southern Levant from about 1200-600 B.C. In biblical accounts, ...

For centuries, the ancient Philistines have been a prominent, yet enigmatic, group in historical accounts, particularly in the narratives of the ancient Levant. Their true origins—whether they ...

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?

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 ...

The mysterious culture of the Philistines that flourished during the Iron Age (1200-604 BCE) profoundly affected the southern Levant’s cultural history, agronomy, and dietary customs.

The enigmatic Philistine culture, which flourished during the Iron Age (ca. 1200-604 BCE), profoundly affected the southern Levant's cultural history, agronomy, and dietary customs.

They are a derogatory figure of speech and one of the Bible’s most important groups of people – but we might have got them entirely wrong ...