Its excavations have revealed five major strata the earliest dating to the Neolithic period beginning around 10000 BC.

Modern name for ugarit. The site of Ugarit lies some six miles north of the Syrian port of Latakia on the Mediterranean coast. Its ruins about half a mile from the shore were first uncovered by the plow of a peasant at Al-Bayḍā Bay. 76 rows Ugarit j uː ˈ ɡ ɑː r ɪ t uː-.

Many clay tablets were uncovered which were written in cuneiform Latin for wedge shaped letters in a language called Ugaritic. In the Middle East and later elsewhere characterized by the development of. A number of sites mentioned in the Bible have names that attest to worship of the sun god Shemesh.

Both Ebla and Ugarit witness da-nilu the name of the major prophet Daniel while Eblaite a-gi-a-lum the Most High is my feast recalls the minor prophet Haggai and the biblical personal name hagiyah Yah is my feast. Ugaritic definition of or relating to Ugarit its people or their language. The religion of Ugarit and the religion of ancient Israel were not the same but there were some striking overlaps.

Ugaritic alphabet of 30 letters is invented. Its ruins in the form of a mound or tell lie half a mile from the shore. Although the name of the city was known from Egyptian and Hittite sources its location and history were a mystery until the accidental discovery in 1928 of an ancient tomb at the small Arab village of Ras Shamra.

1350 BCE - c. The International Standard Bible. Its ruins are found on the tell of Ras Shamra located some ten kilometers north of the modern port city of Latakia.

Ugarit was the name of an ancient port city in modern Syria. The Ugarit word gezer means young man and is spelled the same as ghezer except for the first letter which is a gimel. The Canaanites entered western Asia around 2000 BC.