Goliath was a Greek?

The Bronze age collapse saw massive numbers of invaders (? migrants/refugees) destroying the various interconnected kingdoms of the Bronze age. (Greece, the Hittites, Canaanite cities of the Levant, Egypt).

The only civilization that survived (albeit somewhat weakened) was Egypt, who resettled some of the survivors of the invaders along the coast of the Levant, which still bears the name "Palestine" from the sea people named "peleset"...

Pottery and other archaeological finds suggested their pottery and architecture styles had long suggested a connection between these settlers and Mycenean Greece, but now DNA studies suggest that this was true.

(after a few generations, the DNA is mixed with local DNA, and modern Palestinians have DNA closer to the Jews with an Arab admixture... Wikipedia).

AP Article:

JERUSALEM (AP) — Goliath the Greek? Human remains from an ancient cemetery in southern Israel have yielded precious bits of DNA that a new study says help prove the European origin...

Now, a study of genetic material extracted from skeletons unearthed in the Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon in 2013 has found a DNA link. It connects the Philistines to populations in southern Europe during the Bronze Age.f the Philistines — the enigmatic nemeses of the biblical Israelites....

headsup from AViewFromTheBeachBlog

The background of the Bronze Age collapse can be found in the lecture by Eric Cline:

---------or you can listen to the entire Book: (until the copyright cops find it)

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