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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 566

Canaanites

From right to left – Tel Aviv University Prof. Oded Lipschits, Noga, Ziv and Omer Nitzan, and Antiquities Authority archaeologist Semyon Gendler. (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority)
April 1, 2025, 12:21 pm
Three-year-old girl finds Canaanite seal where Bible says David battled Goliath
Ziv Nitzan was hiking with her family near Tel Azeka when she picked up a small stone that her sisters later realized was shaped like a scarab, revealing 3,800-year-old finding
By Rossella Tercatin
A 17th century BCE inscription in early Canaanite script from Lachish, incised on an ivory lice comb. (Daniel Vanstub)
November 9, 2022, 6:09 am
Ivory lice comb – a dating head-scratcher – may hold earliest Canaanite sentence
With a paucity of contemporary Bronze Age examples for comparison, scholars believe relatable 7-word inscription is first recorded complete proto-Canaanite sentence in Holy Land
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Silver cuts from ingots used for trade prior to currency minting. (Clara Amit/Israel Antiquities Authority)
November 22, 2020, 9:11 pm
Ancient forgers? Israeli researchers ID ‘dirty currency’ from 3,000 years ago
Joint Hebrew University and Haifa University research finds materials such as arsenic added to mainly copper primitive ‘cash,’ apparently to make it look like silver
By ToI Staff
A 3,200-year-old citadel unearthed near Guvrin Stream and Kibbutz Gal On, August 2020. (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority)
August 23, 2020, 4:42 pm
3,200-year-old fort, site of epic battles in biblical era, found in south Israel
Israel Antiquities Authority says remains of Egyptian citadel, built to repel Philistines while Israelites settled elsewhere in the country, will be opened to public free of charge
By ToI Staff
A scepter from the Canaanite temple that is believed to have been part of a life-sized "divinity statue." (Courtesy)
June 18, 2020, 2:36 pm
Ancient scepter found in south may be first proof of life-sized ‘divine statues’
Hebrew University archaeologist says spatula-like object unearthed at Lachish was ‘an identifying marker and symbol’ of a Canaanite god
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Burial of individual analyzed in the Canaanite study, from about 1600 BC. (Dr. Claude Doumet-Serhal/Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)
May 28, 2020, 6:06 pm
How the Canaanites, Biblical frenemies of the Israelites, kept genetic integrity
Major study shows Canaanites maintained coherent genetic mix even though they were widely dispersed, and it can still be discerned in modern Arabic-speaking and Jewish populations
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
3,500-year-old Canaanite clay piece found on Tel Gama (the Canaanite city of Yarza), March 2020. (Emil Eljam/Israel Antiquities Authority)
May 25, 2020, 1:25 pm
3,500-year-old Canaanite prison scene discovered by 6-year-old on a hike
A family outing near the Gaza border became a treasure hunt as a priceless tiny Canaanite clay impression caught the eye of Imri Elya
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Ahmed Nassar Yassin with 4,500-year-old artifacts he discovered in a burial cave near Araba in northern Israel. (Nir Distelfeld/Israel Antiquities Authority)
September 11, 2019, 11:58 am
4,500-year-old burial artifacts chanced upon by electrician on his way to work
Ahmad Nassar Yassin, a resident of the northern Israel village of Araba, discovers remains of a previously unknown Canaanite-era settlement
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaking at an event hall in the Jalazone refugee camp on August 10, 2019. (Wafa)
August 13, 2019, 4:00 pm
Abbas: Settlements will be swept away, Palestinians came from ancient Canaanites
PA president says despite US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the city belongs to the Palestinians; charges Hamas’s leaders are working for Israel
By Adam Rasgon
Stunning 8th century BCE staircase and paved entrance hall at Tel Hazor. (The Selz Foundation Hazor Excavations in Memory of Yigael Yadin)
July 24, 2019, 5:17 am
Large 3,500-year-old staircase hints at conquered Canaanite kingdom’s grandeur
The largest biblical-era site in Israel with an estimated population of 20,000, Hazor was razed by the Israelites, according to the Book of Joshua
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Illustrative: An orthophoto created from a 3D model of an adult male (center) and adult female (bottom) during excavation of the 3,600-year-old burial cave at Megiddo. (Adam Prins and Robert S. Homsher)
March 21, 2018, 11:30 pm
Untouched for 3,600 years, ‘royal’ tomb may change what we know about Canaanites
Located at the crossroads of civilization, a Tel Megiddo burial chamber includes a diadem-bedecked male skeleton, and hints that bones did not always rest in peace
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
David Tanami, an Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologist, works his way into the narrow tomb opening to bring out a jar at a Canaanite burial site near Jerusalem's Biblical Zoo. (Shua Kisilevitz, Israel Antiquities Authority)
September 25, 2017, 2:31 pm
Afterlife snack: Jar of toads popped open in 4,000-year-old Canaanite tomb dig
Excavation just outside Jerusalem’s Biblical Zoo gives window into funerary rites, with unexpected remains of decapitated toads and not-local myrtle and date pollen
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Illustrative: Burial of individual analyzed in the Canaanite study, from about 1600 BC. (Dr. Claude Doumet-Serhal/Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)
July 28, 2017, 4:30 am
The Canaanites weren’t annihilated, they just ‘moved’ to Lebanon
A UK-based study of ancient genomes finds Canaanites form over 90% of modern Lebanese ancestry, a trait they share with ancient Israelites
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Medallion made up of a silver disc with an engraving of an eight pointed star that was discovered in Tel Gezer in November 2016. (CLARA AMIT/IAA)
November 14, 2016, 5:59 pm
Rare Canaanite-era trove of gold and silver unearthed in central Israel
Pendant, scarab and rare fabric discovered in clay vessel in 3,600-year-old room undergoing excavation at Tel Gezer National Park
By Sue Surkes
An Egyptian-made statue of Ramses III, using finer materials and tools than those made by the Canaanites (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
March 10, 2016, 11:33 am
The Canaanites who loved Pharaoh, on display at the Israel Museum
Jerusalem’s latest grand-scale exhibit reveals an unlikely, world-changing exchange of rituals and objects in ancient times
By Jessica Steinberg
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