Lattakia, SANA- On Ras Shamra Hill, north of Latakia, lies a Syrian city that presented the world with the first written alphabet and the first recorded musical note in history, it is Ugarit, the ...
In 1929, a farmer accidentally discovered a tomb near the Mediterranean coast of Syria, about 12 km north of the modern seaport of Latakia. Initial excavations at the tell of Ras Shamra by René ...
March 5 is the anniversary of the oldest recorded eclipse in human history, when the shadow of a total solar eclipse fell across the Bronze Age city of Ugarit in 1223 BCE. It's certainly not the first ...
Modern cities can learn from the fate of the collapsed civilizations at Ugarit and Mycenae. By Annalee Newitz Contributing Opinion Writer About 3,190 years ago, a merchant in Emar, a trading outpost ...
Near Eastern Archaeology, Vol. 63, No. 4, The Mysteries of Ugarit: History, Daily Life, Cult (Dec., 2000), pp. 192-193 (2 pages) ...
What we now know as the modern English alphabet first appeared thousands of years ago, a new research project into its origin and spread has found. It was used more than 3,000 years ago in the ancient ...
Tarek Teba, University of Portsmouth. I recently won a British Council Research Links Grant in collaboration with University of Jordan but not related to this work. Around 3,300 years ago, the port ...
About 12 kilometers north of Latakia, less than a kilometer from the Mediterranean coast of Syria, lies the tell of Ras Shamra, which has been the site of archaeological investigations for more than ...
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