The Bible claimed God ordered the Canaanites to be wiped out, but a new genetic research study suggests the ancient people survived that initial order. In later excerpts of Judges and Ezra ...

The Canaanites lived at the crossroads of the ancient world. In a territory that would later be known as the Middle East, they experienced wars, conquests and occupations over thousands of years.

Ancient Palestine was occupied by several different nations throughout its history. What do we know about them?

But as the Middle Bronze Age and Middle Kingdom progressed, so too did the quality of Canaanite art. The thoroughly modern idea that ancient vases are “art” probably would have seemed strange ...

A new study claims the Israelites were not indigenous to Canaan but descended from the ancient European Steppes.

The 17 letters on the comb form seven words and belong to an early form of the alphabet used by the Canaanites. [Related: What ancient graves can teach us about the history of inequality.] ...

This faint inscription, written in the early language of the ancient Canaanites, represents the earliest known instance of a complete sentence written using a phonetic alphabet, says archaeologist ...

Israeli archeologists have found an ancient comb dating back some 3,700 years ago and bearing what is likely the oldest known full sentence in Canaanite alphabetical script, according to an ...

JERUSALEM, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Opium traces have been discovered in Israel in vessels used in burial rituals by the ancient Canaanites, providing one of the world's earliest evidences of use of ...