Semitic people or Semites is a term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group [2] [3] [4] [5] associated with people of the Middle East, including Arabs, Jews, Akkadians, and Phoenicians. The terminology is now largely unused outside the grouping "Semitic languages" in linguistics.

Orientalid proper, the most common type of the Arabian Peninsula, often found with Semitic languages. Originally restricted to Arabia, ancient migrations and the Islamic expansion brought it to North Africa, where it is heavily mixed (e.g. Berber Arabs).

Serious scholars have pointed out — repeatedly and ineffectually — that “Semitic” is a linguistic and cultural classification, denoting certain languages and in some contexts the literatures and civilizations expressed in those languages.

The Semitic peoples, in the biblical narrative, trace their origins to Shem, and their collective identity unfolds across the pages of Scripture through genealogies, cultural records, prophecies, and archaeological finds that show their integral role in ancient Near Eastern history.

Semitic type that unites Armenoid with Arabid features. Historically important in the ancient Hittite Kingdom and the Assyrian civilisation. Diluted today, purest in Isfahan Jews, but also Ashkenazi Jews and some Syrians and Iranians.

Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples or Proto-Semitic people were speakers of Semitic languages who lived throughout the ancient Near East and North Africa, including the Levant, Mesopotamia, the Arabian Peninsula and Carthage from the 3rd millennium BC until the end of antiquity, with some, such as Arabs, Arameans, Assyrians, Jews, Mandaeans, and ...

Genetic studies of Jews are part of the population genetics discipline and are used to analyze the ancestry of Jewish populations, complementing research in other fields such as history, linguistics, archaeology, and paleontology. These studies …

Jun 25, 2024 · Lazaridis et al. (2022) conducted a comprehensive analysis of phenotypic traits borne by ancient individuals excavated in Europe and Asia, including the Late Bronze Age Semitic peoples of Jordan.

Apr 15, 2024 · On Phenotype of the Canaanites, ancestors of modern Semitic peoples of the Levant and Mesopotamia, we saw how the Bronze Age Canaanites of Israel/Palestine, were dark-skinned, dark-eyed and dark-haired. No Canaanite individuals were pale-skinned, blue-eyed or red-haired/blonde-haired.

Arabid is the Orientalid proper human phenotype and the most proper Semitic phenotype, and the dominant human phenotype found in people indigenous to the Arabian Peninsula at the very heart of the Middle East in West Asia.