 This city was apparently destroyed at the end of the Late Bronze Age, most probably with the arrival of the Philistines.During the Iron Age, the site became a major Philistine site, "Gath of the Philistines," one of the five cities of the Philistine "pentapolis," known from biblical and extra-biblical (such as Assyrian) sources.Settled from the earliest phases of the Philistine culture (ca.