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

The people of modern ... day Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine) during the Bronze Age, starting about 4,000 years ago. They're best known from the Old Testament of the Bible, in which ...

Lebanon) around 3,700 years ago. The results were compared against the DNA of 99 modern-day Lebanese residents. According to the results, Canaanite ancestry is a mix of indigenous populations who ...