[Sherman Logan]

"What we are learning from their art, from their decorated... style of pottery, iron working, they were a technologically sophisticated culture and artistic and cosmopolitan culture," she said.

She makes it sound like this is a new concept. The Bible account makes it very clear the Philistines were more technologically advanced than the Israelites.

[SeminoleSoldier]

Also the first practitioners of ‘gun control.’

Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, ‘Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears.’ But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen each man’s plowshare, his mattock, his ax, and his sickle;...So it came about, on the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan...” (1 Samuel 13:19-20; 22-23).