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 ...

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 ...

Centuries of excavations have unearthed a few theories about what really brought down one of the oldest cities in the ancient ...

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 ...

HINXTON, ENGLAND—According to a report in Science News, researchers led by Marc Haber of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute mapped the genomes of five 3,700-year-old Canaanite skeletons uncovered in ...

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Archaeologists from Israel have discovered an ancient comb that has what they believe is the oldest complete sentence written in Canaanite alphabetical script. The 3,700-year-old comb's inscription ...

While on a hike with her family along a trail in Israel, a 3-year-old girl picked up a small stone. It turned out to be a 3,800-year-old scarab amulet dating back to the Middle Bronze Age. The girl, ...

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 ...