Damascus, (SANA) 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 alphabet was found ...

Damascus, SANA- Ugarit occupies a significant position on the map of the ancient civilizations in the Middle East and its discovery in the first quarter of the twentieth century is considered as ...

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 ...

This tablet is the only evidence of a school text in the cuneiform alphabet outside Ugarit. The other two inscriptions found in present-day Israel may represent a local Canaanite dialect and a writing ...

The alphabet, as best as historians can tell, ... In the 1920s, archaeologists found a dozen stone tablets used in a school in Ugarit, a city in what is now Syria, ...

The Expo 2020 Dubai will offer visitors a unique opportunity to see three key heritage artefacts from the Canaanite and Pharaonic civilisations, and the Renaissance era. The artefacts include a copy ...

Dubai’s Expo 2020, the world’s biggest cultural event, is set to offer visitors a unique experience involving artefacts from the Canaanite and Pharaonic ...