DNA traces of an extinct tribe mentioned in the Bible has been found in modern Jewish and Arabic people, a bombshell study has claimed.
The main bulk of the Canaanite tribe once lived in modern-day Israel and Palestine before they disappeared from history. But a new study that examined the genetic heritage found that the Biblical tribe’s DNA lives on in many Jewish and Arabic people.
Cell, a science journal, found that people from the Caucasus Mountains had mixed with the existing Canaanites who lived in the Middle East during the bronze age.
More than 70 bones belonging to Canaanites, and found in that region, were examined by evolutionists from Israel’s Hebrew University.
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