TELL TUNEINIR SYRIA INFORMATION St. Louis Archaeological Expeditions Dr. Michael Fuller and Neathery Batsell Fuller, Directors Report on the 1987-2001 campaigns at Tell Tuneinir, Syria. Rescue excavations have been conducted in twelve different areas of the site. Research objectives include the definition of the city's Islamic Period commercial structures, identification of features related to ...

Ugarit (notes) The people of Ugarit were the Canaanites, precursors to the Phoenicians. They were perhaps the first to recognize that human speech consists of only a finite number of atomic sounds and all that was really needed was a symbol for each. They devised 30 symbols from which the alphabets of all phonetic languages are derived (yes all: Hebrew, Latin, Sanskrit, Aramaic, Arabic, Greek, ...

Welcome to the Abu Hureyra website and electronic data archive. Here you will find many of the data recovered from the archaeological excavation of the early village of Abu Hureyra. These data form part of the evidence used to write the book Village on the Euphrates by A.M.T. Moore, G.C. Hillman, and A.J. Legge that was published by Oxford University Press in 2000. At this website you may also ...

The discovery of an ancient city: Ugarit, Syria, History. ArabicNews.com - Your source for Daily News about the Arabic world.

Ancient Ugarit text studied by US researcher using computers, Syria, Science. ArabicNews.com - Your source for Daily News about the Arabic world.

Ugarit I. Archeological Background The excavation of Ugarit began at a site known as Minet el-Beida, the White Harbor , on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea north of Beirut, now in Syria. From antiquity to the present, the site has been an important seaport. In 1929, when the excavations first began, the area was inhabited mainly by the Alaouite tribe, which claimed descent from a ...