The people of Canaan, said in the Bible to have been wiped out, actually lived to pass their genes to people of modern-day Lebanon.

According to the Bible, God destroys the world in a flood after telling Noah to build an ark. Noah's ark lands on Mount Ararat in modern Turkey, and Noah's descendents repopulate the world. 4000 - ...

Once in Canaan, the Israelites fought a series of wars against the Canaanites (and other groups), which led to the Israelites taking over most of the Canaanites' land, according to the Bible.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL evidence has been brought to light that could prove the Bible right about the Israelites' conquest of Canaan and the destruction of Hazor, a scripture expert has astonishingly claimed.

In the words of the King James Bible, which was the version then current, these were, first, Genesis IX, 18–27: “And the sons of Noah that went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth ...