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A local farmer has unearthed a 4,500-year-old limestone statue in Gaza, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities run by the Islamist group Hamas announced on Tuesday (April 26). The statue, believed to ...

Researchers from the UK’s Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute sequenced the genomes of five 4,000-year-old Canaanites, as well as 99 people now residing in Lebanon and have provided convincing evidence ...

The ruins of an ancient blade factory unearthed in Israel may offer the clearest evidence yet of the Canaanites, a people long described in the Bible. Archaeologists in Kiryat Gat, about 40 miles ...

The land surrounding the imposing Tel Megiddo in northern Israel, a mound that preserves millennia of history, has once again yielded two extraordinary revelations that require rewriting fundamental ...

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 ...