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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.
Robert De Niro turned a Cannes Film Festival event honoring his work into a critique of “philistine” President Trump and a call for action.
I spent last weekend in Riebeek Kasteel attending the town’s annual art festival which was presented under the collective title ‘Solo Studios. Intimate Art Encounters’. It was a superbly organised ...
Researcher Sabine Kleiman suggests the valley may lie east of the Elah Valley, closer to the ancient Philistine city of Gath, rather than near Jerusalem as traditionally thought. Kleiman’s findings, ...
Ancient philistine cemetery discovered in Israel could solve one of the Bible’s biggest mysteries They are a derogatory figure of speech and one of the Bible’s most important groups of people ...
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 ...
Israel’s legitimacy grows out of the tragedy of the Holocaust and the West’s guilt about this genocide in the heart of Europe. Brandenburg Gate or 10 Downing Street are unlikely to have Palestine’s ...
The Philistines are a renowned Biblical nation associated with Israel. Are modern Palestinians descended from the Ancient Philistines?
‘Palestine’ derives from ‘Israel’, and has nothing to do with the word ‘Philistine.’ Debunking a myth. Op-ed.