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Welcome to Scientific American Science Talk posted on February 10th, 2016. I'm Steve Mirsky. On this episode... But we now understand so much more about who the Philistines

were, where they came from, what their technology is, their trade patterns.

That's archaeologist Aaron Mayer from Bar-Ilan University in Israel.

Now I'll turn it over to freelance science journalist Kevin Beagles,

who recently visited with Mayer at his dig site.

I'm here at the ancient city of Gott,

the most logical site for Goliath's hometown, with Aaron Mayer.

He's the lead archaeologist on the site.

And Aaron, how do you approach working at such a well-known, famous site, as opposed to if this was just the same kind of dig from the same time period?

The fact that it's a well-known site and it's not easy to find volunteers and it's not easy

to raise funds, but I would say perhaps it's a bit easier.

It enables us to have both the manpower during our excavation season and sometimes the funding,

both from scientific funding

resources and also from donations to expand the toolkit that we can use during the excavation.

And I think the fact that there is a very good, argument to claim that this is in fact got to the

Philistines, which according to the biblical narrative is the hometown of Goliath, makes this site

...