Peleset
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The Peleset or Pulasati were a people appearing in fragmentary historical and iconographic records in ancient Egyptian from the Eastern Mediterranean in the late 2nd millennium BCE. They are hypothesi
A Peleset and a Sherden prisoner being led by an Egyptian soldier under Ramesses III, Medinet Habu temple
Peleset helmet recreation
Peleset Warrior inscription replica
Philistines
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The Philistines were an ancient people who lived along the southern coast of Canaan during the Iron Age. Their territory was organized into a confederation of city-states known collectively as Philist
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…one of the several ethnic groups of which the invading Sea Peoples were said to be composed. Today, historians generally identify the Peleset with the Philistines. Very few documentary records exist, both for the Peleset and for the other groups hypothesized as Sea Peoples. One group of people recorded as…
Samson slays a thousand men with the jawbone of an ass (watercolor circa 1896–1902 by James Tissot).
Illustration depicting a Philistine victory over the Israelites (1896)
Peleset, captives of the Egyptians, from a graphic wall relief at Medinet Habu, in about 1185-52 BC, during the reign of Ramesses III