The Sea Peoples: The Ancient Mystery That Stumped Historians For Centuries — And What Modern Science Finally Revealed About Who They Really Were
The Ashkelon study was a landmark finding.
It provided the first direct genetic evidence that the Philistines — and by extension, one of the Sea Peoples groups — did indeed have significant genetic ancestry from the Aegean region.
The speculation of earlier scholars about an Aegean origin for the Philistines was confirmed at the molecular level.
But it also raised new questions.
If the Philistines came from the Aegean, which part of the Aegean?
And what about the other Sea Peoples groups — the Shardana, the Shekelesh, the Denyen, the Tjeker?
