A group of Israeli and US experts disclosed on Wednesday that the first sentence ever found in the language of the Canaanites, a people who formerly lived in the ancient Near East, was a term used to treat lice. May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard, says a 17-letter inscription on an ivory comb that dates to roughly 1,700 BC, according to a research that was published in the Jerusalem... 

Just as the discovery of genetics undermined the theory of evolution, the same can now be said for the Jewish contention that they are “God’s chosen people,” the legitimate descendants of the Israelites, as a new DNA study has revealed that both Jews and Arabs share common ancestry with the Canaanites, the ancient enemies of the biblical Israelites: The people who lived in the area known as...