Ugarit’s culture was distinctive in ways apart from its homegrown script. Women had an unusual degree of autonomy compared to other contemporaneous cultures, and were allowed to own property ...

Of the thousands of texts from Ugarit, none shows the ancient Syrian city’s vibrant cosmopolitanism and civic spirit like the poem modern translators have called “Ritual of National Unity.” ...

Damascus, SANA- Archeologists agree on the great historical importance of Ugarit archeological city in Lattakia coastal province which enjoys a significant position on the map of the ancient ...

The Bronze Age (c. 3100-1200 BCE) was an exciting time in the eastern Mediterranean Basin and the Near East for a number of ...

Steven Jones A globetrotting archaeologist discovers danger and intrigue while searching for an elusive treasure of the ancient Kingdom of Ugarit. Advertisement ...

A. Schaeffer. Educated at Strasbourg and Oxford, Schaeffer excavated in 1929 the ancient city of Ugarit, located on the Syrian coast opposite Cyprus. The abundance of Cypriot material found there ...

The archives in Ugarit and Alalakh (located 20 kilometres northeast of modern Antakia in Turkey) as well as Egyptian and Hittite correspondence, and other relevant texts, attest to that.

May 3 unfolds with a medley of historical events and oddities, from the birth of political reforms to celestial observations ...

The main story is the search for two artefacts which combined become an extraordinary weapon in the form a nuclear laser which turns rock into molten lava. There are various interests in the ...

Hu, Liangbing Choi, Jang Wook Yang, Yuan Jeong, Sangmoo La Mantia, Fabio Cui, Li-Feng and Cui, Yi 2009. Highly conductive paper for energy-storage devices ...