1.0Leon Levy Foundationhttps://leonlevyfoundation.orgJennifer Ellishttps://leonlevyfoundation.org/author/jenniferellis/Goliath the Greek? Human remains from an ancient cemetery in southern Israel have yielded precious bits of DNA that a new study says help prove the European origin of the Philistines — the enigmatic nemeses of the biblical Israelites. - Leon Levy Foundationrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content"><a href="https://leonlevyfoundation.org/2019/07/08/goliath-the-greek-human-remains-from-an-ancient-cemetery-in-southern-israel-have-yielded-precious-bits-of-dna-that-a-new-study-says-help-prove-the-european-origin-of-the-philistines-the-eni/">Goliath the Greek? Human remains from an ancient cemetery in southern Israel have yielded precious bits of DNA that a new study says help prove the European origin of the Philistines — the enigmatic nemeses of the biblical Israelites.</a></blockquote>
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</script><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://leonlevyfoundation.org/2019/07/08/goliath-the-greek-human-remains-from-an-ancient-cemetery-in-southern-israel-have-yielded-precious-bits-of-dna-that-a-new-study-says-help-prove-the-european-origin-of-the-philistines-the-eni/embed/" width="600" height="338" title="“Goliath the Greek? Human remains from an ancient cemetery in southern Israel have yielded precious bits of DNA that a new study says help prove the European origin of the Philistines — the enigmatic nemeses of the biblical Israelites.” — Leon Levy Foundation" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe>July 3, 2019 – The Philistines mostly resided in five cities along the southern coast of what is today Israel and the Gaza Strip during the early Iron Age, around 3,000 years ago. In the Bible, David fought the Philistine giant Goliath in a duel, and Samson slew a thousand of their warriors with the jawbone...