Wesleyan University Israel and Jewish Studies grant recipient student, Joy Feinberg ’19, along with Jamie Marvin ’19 and Sarah McCully ’16 and their professor Kate Birney, assistant professor of classical studies, archaeology and art history and CJST faculty member, contributed to the groundbreaking discovery of the first Philistine cemetery during their excavation in Ashkelon in Israel. The Philistines are known as the archenemy of ancient Israel from the Hebrew Bible and the discovery of the first Philistine cemetery might support the claim that the Philistines were migrants who arrived to the shores of ancient Israel from to lands to the West around the 12th century BCE.
To learn more about this discovery, please check the following link:
newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/tag/kate-birney/
