Facial reconstruction of an ancient Israelite based on Iron Age DNA samples 🧬 This reconstruction is informed by genetic data from Iron Age populations of ancient Israel, dating roughly to the 1st millennium BC. 🧬 What the DNA shows Iron Age Israelites were genetically West Asian / Levantine, closely related to: • Bronze Age Levantine populations • Earlier Canaanite groups • Neighboring peoples of the southern Levant They were not a foreign intrusive population, but largely descended from loca