 The Canaanites were also the first people, as far as is known, to have used an alphabet, as early as the 12th century BCE

The name Israel first appears c. 1209 BCE, at the end of the Late Bronze Age and the very beginning of the period archaeologists and historians call Iron Age I, on the Merneptah Stele raised by the Egyptian Pharaoh Merneptah.The inscription is very brief