In the podcast, “Everything you know about the Philistines is wrong”, archaeologist, Prof. Aren Maeir, takes us into the strata of the biblical city of Gath to examine the technologies of Israel’s ancient enemies and how they likely viewed themselves.
Prof. Maeir, a lecturer in Bar-Ilan University’s Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology (LISA), has been directing the excavations at Tell es-Safi/Gath, the biblical city of the Philistines, for 25 years. Excavations there began in 1996. Read More.