Leonid Gomberg’s book “The Road to Canaan” covers huge temporal and spatial tracts of human history reflected in the Bible - from the sites of the “Palestinian Neanderthal” who lived 70 thousand years ago in the caves of the Eastern Mediterranean, to the settlement of the Ivri clan of settlers in Canaan Ur and Haran at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC. e. The narrative presents the key figures of early biblical history Cain, Noah, Nimrod, Abraham in the context of realistically possible events reflected in the myths of Mesopotamia and the Levant: the construction of Jericho, the Flood, the Babylonian Pandemonium, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.