Ugarit
Sign in to saveUgarit (; , 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
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Ugarit was an ancient coastal city in what is now northern Syria that was discovered in 1928 and found to contain thousands of cuneiform texts written in a previously unknown language called Ugaritic. The site's archaeological remains, particularly from the late Bronze Age, have provided invaluable insights into Bronze Age civilization in the eastern Mediterranean region.
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- Ancient site.name
- Ugarit
- Ancient site.native_name
- 𐎜𐎂𐎗𐎚
- Ancient site.alternate_name
- Raʾs Shamrā ()
- Ancient site.map_type
- Syria
- Ancient site.relief
- yes
- Ancient site.location
- Latakia Governorate, Syria
- Ancient site.region
- Fertile Crescent
- Ancient site.type
- Settlement
- Ancient site.built
- c. 7000 BC
- Ancient site.abandoned
- c. 1185 BC
- Ancient site.epochs
- Neolithic, Late Bronze Age
- Ancient site.event
- Bronze Age Collapse
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26 sectionsContents
- History
- Neolithic, Chalcolithic Age
- Early Bronze Age
- Middle Bronze Age
- Middle Bronze I
- Middle Bronze IIA
- Middle Bronze IIB
- Late Bronze Age
- Destruction
- Rulers
- Archaeology
- Discovery and excavations
- Cuneiform tablets
- Royal palace
- Acropolis
- The House of Alabaster Vessels
- Ras Ibn Hani and Minet el Beida
- The Temple of Rhyton
- Language and literature
- Alphabet
- Ugaritic language
- Ugaritic literature
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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 eastern Mediterranean.
Ugarit is north of the Syrian city Latakia; at its zenith it ruled an area roughly equivalent to the modern Latakia Governorate. The ruins are often called "Ras Shamra" or "Tell Shamra" after the local place names.
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