This is the video that several of you have requested – a one stop shop on the history of ancient Canaan and its people, the Canaanites. In this program we’ll look at the history of this region and how it developed from the Bronze Age, Canaan’s relationship with Egypt and other parts of the world, and various Canaanite kingdoms such Moab, Edom, Ammon, Israel and Judah. I’ve also remastered past content on the Phoenician cities of Sidon, Tyre and Byblos and added them at the end of the video. If you want a general history of ancient Canaan and the Canaanite people, then this program is for you.
*Contents:*
00:00 Introduction to Canaan
01:45 Early Bronze Age History of Canaan
06:40 Canaan, Egypt, Mitanni and the Hittites
22:23 Life in Canaan during the Bronze Age
25:53 Canaan and the Bronze Age Collapse
32:39 Canaanite Religion
34:51 Moab
37:15 Edom
39:27 Ammon
41:05 Israel and Judah
49:21 Sidon
1:00:36 Tyre
1:14:30 Byblos
1:26:49 Thank You and Patrons
*Related Videos:*
*History of Ancient Egypt: Dynasty XVIII – Egypt’s Golden Age and the Start of the New Kingdom*
*History of Ancient Egypt: Dynasty XIX – Ramesses II, the Battle of Kadesh and the Israel Stela*
*History of Ancient Egypt: Dynasty XX – Sea Peoples, Late Bronze Age Collapse and the End of an Era*
*Sources and Suggested Reading:*
_Canaanites_ – Jonathan N. Tubb
_Canaan and Israel in Antiquity_ – K. L. Knoll
_Archaeology of the Land of the Bible: 10,000-586 BC_ – Amihai Mazar
_The Battles of Armageddon: Megiddo and the Jezreel Valley from the Bronze Age to the Nuclear Age_ – Eric H. Cline
_Archaeology and the Religions of Canaan and Israel_ – Ed. Victor Matthews
_The Forgotten Kingdom: the Archaeology and History of Northern Israel_ – Israel Finkelstein
_Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles_ – A. K. Grayson
_The Royal Inscriptions of Esarhaddon, King of Assyria (680-669 BC)_ – Erle Leichty
_The Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, King of Assyria (704-681 BC), Part II_ – A. K. Grayson and Jamie Novotny
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Egypt=US and 1%
Cannanites=modern working and poor classes
Rewritten history to reflect myth to justify “sacrifices” to sun god/king/lord, sounds about right. And I’m a Christian 😂
The Israelites are not Canaanite, they came from present day Southern Iraq.
I knew it. The northern side and the southern side of the biblical narration weren't related. The customes are too different. You can see the difference more in the Ethiopian bible.
you can just say Palestine. an internationally recognized country
DNA study: Modern Jews and Arabs retain more than half their ancestry from Bronze Age ‘Canaanites’
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'Genome-wide analysis of 93 skeletons from Israel, Jordan and Lebanon traces an unbroken genetic thread across three millennia.'
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"JULY 10, 2025 13:21
A new ancient-DNA survey of human remains from nine southern-Levantine sites indicates that present-day Jewish and Arabic-speaking communities typically derive at least fifty per cent of their genomes from Bronze Age inhabitants of the region who shared a common “Canaanite” material culture.
The authors extracted and analysed genome-wide data from seventy-three newly sampled individuals—dating between roughly 2400 BCE and 900 BCE—and combined them with twenty previously published genomes, creating a dataset of ninety-three ancient people. Comparative modelling shows that almost all can be described as a mixture of earlier Neolithic villagers of the Levant and migrants related to populations of the Zagros Mountains or the Caucasus, with the non-local component gradually increasing through the Middle and Late Bronze Age.
Across the nine sites, the Bronze-Age groups display striking genetic homogeneity; inland settlements such as Megiddo, Hazor and ‘Ain Ghazal are closer to one another genetically than to any outside population, despite political independence during the period . The main coastal exception is Sidon, whose inhabitants exhibit a more mixed profile, probably reflecting maritime contacts, yet even their genomes still fit the same two-way model .
Using two complementary statistical frameworks, the authors then compared these Bronze-Age genomes with fourteen modern Jewish and Levantine Arab populations. Both methods converge on a shared inheritance exceeding fifty per cent from the ancient Canaanite–Zagros blend; additional layers include a later east-African contribution that rises southwards and a milder European signal that is stronger in the north and among diaspora Jews .
Among the ancient remains, three individuals interred together at Megiddo stand out. Their genomes carry markedly higher Caucasus-related ancestry than their neighbours, yet strontium‐isotope ratios show local childhood diets, implying that their immigrant forebears had settled on the site only a generation or two earlier. The authors interpret these “Megiddo outliers” as evidence that pulses of migration from the northeast continued into the late second millennium BCE "
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Jerusalem Post
Palestinians and cannanites are the same peoples
that was very rich and informative video , thank you.