LOL. We are being told that the 'crossroads of three continents' has 'somehow' always had the very same people living there as today, despite the Levant being the center of one of the world's most important trade routes and ignoring the long history of invasions (war) stemming from peoples of three different continents seeking its control. The easiest way to debunk the above post is to examine the ancient remains of Israelites themselves. Forensic scientists use cranial shape and capacity measurements to identify the victim's race. This racial characteristic never chances. The remains of Israelites show that their cranial shape and capacity was dolichocephalic (long-headed) with an average cranial capacity of 1416cc. The people of the region today are brachycephalic (round-headed). Modern Jews have a much smaller cranial capacity (avg. 1266 cc) and are brachycephalic (round-shaped). This means the Israelites were a different race of people than those living in Israel today. The cranial shape and capacity size of ancient Israelite remains match Northern Europeans. The Middle East today is not the Middle East it was 3000 years ago. Even Jewish scholars recognize this. Dr. Fishberg presented a table of nearly 3,000 Jewish heads, from various countries, measured during the last twenty years. He commented on the data, “On an examination of the figures in this table a remarkable uniformity of the cephalic index of the modern Jews will be noticed… nearly 90% are between 81.5 and 83…. Another remarkable fact is the striking absence of the dolichocephalic type, which is characteristic of all the other modern Semitic races” (Jewish Encyclopedia IV, 1902, p 334).