Philistines
Gaza’s oldest mosque, destroyed in an airstrike, was once a temple to Philistine and Roman gods, a Byzantine and Catholic church, and had engravings of Jewish ritual objects
By Stephennie Mulder — January 19, 2024
(The Conversation) — Gaza’s Omari Mosque embodies the history of Gaza – as a site of frequent destruction, but also of renewal, writes a scholar of Islamic architecture and archaeology.
Archaeologists dig up Philistine artifacts where Goliath may have walked
By Yonat Shimron — July 11, 2016
TEL ZAFIT, Israel (RNS) The excavation, now in its 21st year, is one of a handful of digs in southern Israel producing everything from pottery shards to bones belonging to the people best known for their famous warrior Goliath.
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