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 ...

DAMASCUS, 11 January (BelTA - SANA Agensy). - The oldest cuneiform alphabet in history was discovered in Ugarit (Ras Shamra), an ancient city located on the Syrian coast, dating back to 1500 BC. This ...

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Did the ancient Syrian inhabitants of Ugarit "feed" their dead after interment? Over six decades after Claude Schaeffer began his grand excavations of this Late Bronze Age metropolis and port, his ...

Forward reader Raffi Bilek has some questions about Ugaritic, the ancient Semitic language, closely related to biblical Hebrew, that was unearthed in archaeological excavations begun in the late 1920s ...

The joint Syrian-Italian archaeological mission has resumed its excavation, research, and documentation work at the Tel ...

Pianist Malek Jandali’s solo concert, Echoes from Ugarit: The Oldest Music Notation in the World!, features his newest compositions. The music that inspired them was written in a form of notation that ...

The sea or bottomry loan was one of the more unusual business loan transactions employed in Graeco-Roman antiquity. It was used to finance transmarine trading voyages. The aim of this paper is to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the history of science and exploration. March 5 is the anniversary of the oldest recorded eclipse in human history, when ...