Footnote 3 – What We Know About the Philistines

The Wenamun papyrus, now in the Moscow Museum, was found at el-Hibeh in Middle Egypt and dates to the Twenty-first Dynasty (11th century B.C.), shortly after the events in the story. It presents a picture of a disintegrating Egyptian Empire which left a vacuum in the region, allowing Asiatics and others to challenge its dominance over the area of Canaan.