1928 archaeological discoveries

Ugarit (; , ủgrt /ʾUgarītu/) was an ancient Levantine coastal city located in what is today northern Syria. The site, with its corpus of ancient cuneiform texts, was discovered in 1928. The texts were written in a previously unknown Northwest Semitic tongue—the Ugaritic language. Archaeological excavations of Ugarit show evidence of occupation since the 8th millennium BC. Research has focused on the late Bronze Age levels; relatively little is known about earlier occupation. The ongoing archaeological investigation of Ugarit has proven to be invaluable to the study of the Bronze Age in the eas

archaeological culture

archaeological site in Iraq

Sixth-century CE synagogue

Ballana () was a cemetery in Lower Nubia. It, along with nearby Qustul, were excavated by Walter Bryan Emery between 1928 and 1931 as a rescue project before a second rising of the Aswan Low Dam. A total of 122 tombs were found under huge artificial mounds. They date to the time after the collapse of the Meroitic state but before the founding of the Christian Nubian kingdoms, around AD 350 to 600. They usually featured one or several underground chambers, with one main burial chamber. Some tombs were found unlooted, but even the robbed burials still proved to contain many burial goods.

corpus of ancient cuneiform texts discovered in Syria

Priest of Cádiz

thumb|upright=1.7|Object said to be "the oldest sickle", flint and resin, Tahunian culture, c. 7000 BC, [[Nahal Hemar Cave. Israel Museum.]]

Et-Tell () or Khirbet et-Tell (also meaning "heap of ruins") is an archaeological site in the West Bank in Palestine. The site is commonly identified with the biblical city of Ai.

group of Paleolithic cave sites excavated by Dorothy Garrod in 1928

Article of Inanna temple

7th-century brooch