Researchers from Bar-Ilan University analyzed seeds and fruits found in southwestern and say they shed light on the ritual practices of the ancient Philistines, the Biblical enemies of the Israelites. The research comes from experts in the relatively new field of Archaeobotany. Archaeobotany is the scientific study of past human-plant interactions through the analysis of […]
A team of Israeli archaeologists and archaeobotanists have overseen the reconstruction of plants used in three-thousand-year-old Philistine rituals at the central Israel site identified as the home of the biblical Goliath, providing a unique window into this ancient civilization.