Ugarit

[oo-guh-reet, yoo-]

noun

1. an ancient city in Syria, N of Latakia, on the site of modern Ras Shamra: destroyed by an earthquake early in the 13th century b.c.; excavations have yielded tablets written in cuneiform and hieroglyphic script that reveal important information on Canaanite mythology.

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It includes clay cuneiform tablets dating back to the 14th Century BC from Ugarit, where evidence of the oldest known complete alphabet was discovered; 1st and 2nd Century AD Greco-Roman sculptures from Palmyra, one of the most important cultural centres of the ancient world; and a 3rd Century AD synagogue that was built at Dura Europos.

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Urtenu may not have realized it, but he was living through the last years of two wealthy cities, Ugarit and Mycenae, that dominated the eastern Mediterranean Sea during what historians call the Bronze Age, from roughly 3000 to 1200 B.C.E.

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The kings of Mycenae and Ugarit worked hand-in-hand with the wealthiest merchants to get rich.

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Writing returned to the region a few centuries after the fall of Ugarit, thanks to traders from Tyre and other independent cities.

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The biggest traders of Ugarit didn’t disappear, because they had political connections in the surviving cities like Tyre.

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