The Goliath Inscription
The oldest Philistine inscription ever discovered was recently excavated in 2005 in Goliath's home town of Gath (Tel es-Safi) by an expedition headed by Aren Maeir of Bar-Ilan University.
The inscription was scratched with a needle-like instrument on a small pot-sherd and dates from the tenth to mid-ninth century B.C.E. that mentions two names very simil…
