ARCHAEOLOGY: Canaanite DNA

 "In a recent development, scientists in Israel have proved that the Canaanites were not only a homogeneous group of people—sharing a common DNA—but also that they resided in Israel before and during the time of Abraham.
The research confirms what the Bible recorded about Abraham, originally known as Abram, in Genesis 12:5–7: Abram, it reads, “came to the land of Canaan [and] … passed through the land to the place of Shechem, as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land. Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, ‘To your descendants I will give this land.’”

The Jerusalem Post first reported details of the new study, which scientists published in the scholarly journal Cell.
In their findings, they discovered Canaanite DNA existing across five archaeological sites in Israel from the Bronze Age, the same period in which Abraham lived. One of the sites was Tel Megiddo, once one of the most important Canaanite cities."
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