http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/amer...story.html
This avoids much of the hype normally associated with archaeology in Israel and will still manage to burn the asses of fundie morons.
This avoids much of the hype normally associated with archaeology in Israel and will still manage to burn the asses of fundie morons.
Quote:Gath’s importance is that the “wonderful assemblage of material culture” uncovered there sheds light on how the Philistines lived in the 10th and 9th centuries B.C., said Seymour Gitin, director of the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem and an expert on the Philistines.
That would include the era of the kingdom ruled from Jerusalem by David and Solomon, if such a kingdom existed as described in the Bible. Other Philistine sites have provided archaeologists with information about earlier and later times but not much from that key period.
