The book outlines a brief alternative history of the Ancient World, which was significantly influenced by two ancient clans - the Hamites and Simites, identified by the author with the carriers of the T1a1 and T1a2 haplogroups, reflected in the Bible as the sons of Ham and Shem, respectively. Against this historical background, the ethnogenesis of the Jewish people and its connection with the ethnic transformation of the Phoenicians, carried out by them from the 2nd century BC, are considered. BC e. according to the II century. in connection with the grave consequences of the Assyrian and Punic wars.