
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Volunteers and archaeologists work at the excavation site in Tel el-Safi, Israel, where they have unearthed the remains of an ancient metropolis. The city of Gath, where this year's digging season began this week, is helping scholars paint a more nuanced portrait of the Philistines, who appear in the biblical story as the perennial enemies of the Israelites.
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