292. Ancient Gaza: From The Assyrians to The Romans (Part 2)
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Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnim. And me, William De Rimple. So welcome to our second in the series on the history of Gaza. And you might remember we ended the first episode with the Philistines living in Gaza and the coastal plains around it. Their civilization
extremely sophisticated. They lived in some of the biggest cities in the region. But at the main Philistine sites, and we were talking about Gath, home of Goliath in the last episode, archaeologists have found that it was beautifully put by William actually that there was a sort of black line that goes across the, you know, the historical record, if you cut down in the layer cake of history, which suggests that this city was violently destroyed. It was burned and it left behind a a layer of charcoal. Which sort of seems to be like a a full stop to that civilization there at the time.
Anita, do you know what the inhabitants of Gath were called? No. They were called Gits. I did not know that. When you say someone is a git, that is someone that comes from Gath.
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