F3 allele sharing to Sidon MBA

F3 allele sharing of modern and ancient Levantine populations with Bronze Age Levant (Sidon MBA - likely same genetics as the Ancient Israelites). Higher the f3 estimate, the genetically "closer" the population. F3 is far superior than FST for small population sizes and for taking highly drifted groups like Samaritans into account.

You can see Iron Age & Hellenistic-Roman Era Lebanese are closest. What's surprising is how close Cypriots are. Let's see how much Sidon MBA ancestry they have.

Target: Cypriot Distance: 1.1574% / 0.01157384
52.2	Levant_Sidon_MBA
34.0	GRC_Minoan_Lassithi
13.8	Yamnaya_RUS_Samara

52.2% Sidon MBA! Now it makes a bit of sense. Phoenican ancestry likely? Lines up with their haplogroups as well, and with recorded history (Cyprus is right off Lebanon in a map). I don't think this is an overfitted model either, the f3 stats are quite clear on it.