That would include the era of the kingdom ruled from Jerusalem by David and Solomon, if such a kingdom existed as described in the Bible. Other Philistine sites have provided archaeologists with information about earlier and later times but not much from that key period.
Emphasis added, as the saying goes.
Thanks, Robin.
The report is biased. It’s lousy reporting, but it’s standard fare for what passes as “journalism” these days.
In archaeology this is a very big deal and a far from settled question. Yes, to the writers fo the bible the Kingdoms of Israel and Judea were vast and powerful and wealthy, but what exactly did they have to compare them to? In a time when the average person traveled no more than 200 miles form the place of their birth in their entire lifetime, and mass media did not exist, how would those chroniclers have gained perspective on the relative power an importance of their land?
We have no doubt these kingdoms existed, but on what scale? To make them historical rather than religious places, we need hard, objective evidence. Something that’s been somewhat hard to come by owing to A) the political situation in the geographical area, and B) the fact that as one of the crossroads of the world, the area has been re-built and re-conquered countless times, each time destroying important historical evidence