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, ...

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 ...