This discovery sheds light on some of the Bible's bad guys - the Philistines. This is not the first time that Philistine artifacts have been unearthed, but this is the first cemetery found so far.

NPR's Daniel Estrin reports from Jerusalem. DANIEL ESTRIN, BYLINE: The Philistines are the bad guys in the Bible, like Goliath who confronted David in battle. They arrived in the Holy Land in the ...

The Philistines have been described as probably the biggest villains of the Hebrew Bible. Likely originating in Crete, they arrived in Canaan—modern-day Southern Levant—in the 12th century BCE and ...