 | Around 4000 years ago, they built great cities, yet they left no surviving written records, leaving researchers to piece together their history. One of those sources is the Bible’s Old Testament, which suggests a grisly end for many Canaanites: After the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt, God ordered them to destroy Canaan and its people.
Ancient DNA recovered from five Canaanite skeletons suggests that they survived to contribute their genes to millions of people living today.
The new samples come from Sidon, a coastal city in Lebanon. |