These include Beth-Shemesh House of Shemesh Joshua 1510 En-Shemesh Spring of ShemeshJoshua 157 and Ir-Shemesh City of Shemesh Joshua 1941.

Modern name for ugarit. Its ruins are often called Ras Shamra after the headland where they lie. 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. El was described as an aged god with white hair seated on a throne.

A number of sites mentioned in the Bible have names that attest to worship of the sun god Shemesh. Its ruins are often called Ras Shamra after the headland where they lie. Modern name for the mound on which the ancient city of Ugarit once stood.

Its excavations have revealed five major strata the earliest dating to the Neolithic period beginning around 10000 BC. The Canaanites entered western Asia around 2000 BC. None of these cities survived to modern times but a place named in Arabic.

Ugaritic definition of or relating to Ugarit its people or their language. The site of Ugarit lies some six miles north of the Syrian port of Latakia on the Mediterranean coast. After Ugarit modern name.

Ugaritic - WordReference English dictionary questions discussion and forums. The city with its port Minet el Beida White Harbor was an important commercial center through which passed the trade of Syria and Mesopotamia with Egypt Cyprus and the Aegean area. Local kings ruled the city-states of Canaan.

The modern name of the mound that marks the site of the ancient city is Ugarit located on the Syrian coast opposite the island of Cyprus. أوغاريت Ūġārīt or أوجاريت Ūǧārīt was an ancient port city in northern Syria in the outskirts of modern Latakia discovered by accident in 1928 together with the Ugaritic texts. Archaeologists were called in which led to the discovery of the near by ancient city of Ugarit modern day Ras Shamra Curtis 1985 18.