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.

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 ...

Ugarit and the Greek city-state of Mycenae were two of the most prosperous kingdoms in a thriving international economy that grew along coastal trade routes linking today’s Greece, ...

Damascus, SANA-A small clay tablet that does not exceed the size of a fist corrected the history of musical notation in the world and brought it back to its true cradle in the kingdom of crafts ...