58 - Philistine DNA: The Infant, the Swan, and 700 Dogs

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58 - Philistine DNA: The Infant, the Swan, and 700 Dogs

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In 2013, archaeologists found an infant buried beneath a family's floor. When they extracted DNA from those tiny bones, they found a genetic signature that appeared out of nowhere, and then vanished within a few generations. An entire people's blood, dissolved. And yet the culture kept going for four hundred years. A painted swan. A goddess no scholar can identify. Seven hundred dogs buried with care, and no one can explain why. If the DNA were gone, what exactly would the Philistines be?

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