Study disproves the Bible's claim that the ancient Canaanites were wiped out

The ancient Canaanites were not wiped out, as the Bible claims, but went on to become modern-day Lebanese, a study has found. Living between 3,000 and 4,000 years ago, the holy text suggests things did not end well for the people living in the Middle East.  According to a passage in Deuteronomy, God had ordered the Israelites to exterminate the Canaanites. “You shall not leave alive anything that breathes. But you shall utterly destroy them ... so that they may not teach you