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 ...

Excavations resume at ancient Ugarit near Latakia after 14-year pause Ugarit is famous for its vast archive of clay tablets inscribed in seven languages, considered among the oldest records of bronze ...

The “Sixth Ugarit Days” event concluded at the Institute of Civilizations at Collège de France in Paris, held over December 10 and 11, ...

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 ...

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 ...

After a 14-year hiatus, excavation work resumed at the ancient settlement of Ugarit near Latakia, Syria, under a joint Syrian-Italian mission, reported Anadolu Agency. Ugarit, located about 12 ...