The people who lived through the Bronze Age Collapse moved, mixed, integrated, and adapted.

Their biological descendants are scattered across the Mediterranean world, their genetic legacy diluted and distributed in ways that can be partially traced but not precisely delineated.

The Continuing Excavation

The ancient sites that preserve the evidence for the Sea Peoples and the Bronze Age Collapse continue to be excavated, and new finds continue to reshape the picture.

At Ashkelon, the excavations that produced the crucial DNA evidence have continued to yield insights into the Philistine civilization at one of its most important cities.

The Leon Levy Expedition at Ashkelon represents one of the most sustained and productive archaeological projects in the Near East, having operated for decades and producing an extraordinary record of the city from the Bronze Age through the Byzantine period.