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A.D. RIDDLE/BIBLEPLACES.COM

CAPTIVE PHILISTINES. This relief from the mortuary temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu in Egypt depicts a group of captives taken during the Sea Peoples’ failed assault on the Nile Delta in the early 12th century BCE. These prisoners wear the distinctive feathered headdress of the Peleset, a Sea Peoples group commonly identified with the Philistines. Although such evidence has led many to conclude the Philistines arrived to the southern Levant as part of a single migration from the Aegean, new archaeological findings indicate they came over the course of several decades and from lands across the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean world.