A 3,000-year-old temple, built by the Canaanites around the time of the ancient Israelite invasion, has been unearthed in southern Israel. The discoveries include an idol of the Canaanite god Baal ...

Abraham set up his own temples to his own god — Yahweh, to whom he was newly committed — alongside the temple of the Canaanites’ god, El. By biblical chronology, this took place around 1800 BCE.

Canaanite cult site offers up its treasures after 3,300 years Tel Burna excavation in central Israel reveals ceramic masks that could mark shrine to storm god Ba’al By Ilan Ben Zion 20 October ...

The Canaanites were often in conflict with the Israelite tribes that wrote the Hebrew Bible. In fact, the Book of Deuteronomy features Yahweh (God) ordering the Canaanites to be exterminated.

DNA from the Bible's Canaanites lives on in modern Arabs and Jews. A study of ancient DNA traces the surprising heritage of these mysterious Bronze Age people.

The Canaanites lived in a region that includes parts of present-day Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan called Canaan. The region is mentioned throughout the Hebrew bible and historical ...