Professor Thomas Tütken of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, and Professor Andreas Pack from the University of Göttingen, studies on fish trade in the ancient world set a boundary for their study area in the Mediterranean Sea region that includes present Israel and concentrated their study on the 100 fish teeth which were found at various archaeological sites in Israel. They claim the story of the fish trade belonging to as early as 3500 years ago.

Interestingly, they call the saltwater sea bream from which the teeth originates as dorade; they are not aware this was name of a country anciently; the fish were transported, the archaeologists think, continuously from the beginning of the Late bronze Age to into the early Byzantine period roughly 300 to 600 .D., the two people terms of the archaeologists which they always use for their academic satisfaction of their findings. It offers interesting scene when the two Professors talk of Israel as same as ancient Canaan; they even went forward to suggest that ‘the Bardawil lagoon formed 4,000 years ago, when the sea level finally stabilized after the end of the last Ice Age. …… fishing was an important economic factor for many ancient cultures. In the southern Levant, the gilthead sea bream Sparus aurata was already being fished by local coastal fishermen 50,000 years ago. More exotic fish, such as the Nile perch, were traded between Egypt and Canaan over 5,000 years ago. However, the current study shows the extent to which the trade between the neighbours increased in the Late Bronze Age and continued for “The Bardawil lagoon was apparently a major source of fish and the starting point for the fish deliveries to Canaan, today’s Israel….’

In order to prove that ancient Israel is everything in biblical narratives, scholars of Israel leave no stone unturned in pushing their point forward without looking at other historical truth of its time.

Archaeologists talk of teeth’s origin from 12 archaeological sites in the southern Levant, some of which lie inland, some on the coast, and cover a time period from the Neolithic to the Byzantine Period. Region of ancient Levant describes ancient settlement sites of Levi’s three sons: Kohathites, Murarites and Gerarites. The historical recognition of these three dynastic class people’s origin are unknown to scholars who unnecessarily link ancient Israel with fish trade now. Skythians were engaged in this trade and Israelites were nowhere in this business.

Ancient Israel is never represented by its present counterpart. Israel was a historic region of all class or people who migrated to that particular region for its deified geographical situation. It does not indicate itself as land of a homogenous group though pursued a one-god approach in life.