Archeologists have discovered the bones of Canaanites that are said to be nearly 4,000 years old, and have determined that the tribe condemned by God as philistines is very much alive. Joshua fit the ...

(CN) — DNA samples have shed light on the Canaanites, a mysterious and diverse group that created the first alphabet and who escaped extermination though God ordered it in the Old Testament. It turns ...

The Biblical figure Lot and his family fleeing the destruction of the city Sodom and Gomorrah. (Circa 1500 BC). The Canaanites inhabited Sodom and Gomorrah and were reportedly annihilated by the ...

A verse in the Bible says God commanded the ancient Israelites to "utterly destroy" the Canaanites, among other peoples. And the disappearance of the the latter group from history suggested some truth ...

Analysis of ancient DNA reveals that the Biblical account isn’t the whole story. The Canaanites are famous as the bad guys of the Book of Joshua in the Tanakh, or the Hebrew Bible. First, God orders ...

The people of Canaan, said in the Bible to have been wiped out, actually lived to pass their genes to people of modern-day Lebanon.

In the Bronze Age, between 4,000 and 3,000 years ago, a diverse group of people called the Canaanites lived in the Middle East. Despite their culture and influence — one of the only golden calf idols ...

A team of scientists from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and its collaborators successfully sequenced the genes of five Bronze Age Canaanite remains found in an archaeological site in the Near ...