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	Pictures, Photos of Ugarit (Ras Shamra), Syria
		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.
		Ugarit was an independent kingdom from the 18th century BCE.
	www.shunya.net /Pictures/Syria/ugarit/Ugarit.htm (296 words)

	Ugarit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ugarit's location was forgotten until 1928 when an Alawite peasant accidentally opened an old tomb while plowing a field.
		Ugarit was destroyed at the end of the Bronze Age.
		Thus the relationship between Ugaritic and Israelite religion is not exclusive; rather, Ugarit was representative of a much larger Bronze Age Canaanite cultural complex that influenced the beliefs of the Iron Age cultures that succeeded it, among which Israel was one, but also included the Phoenicians, the Philistines, and the peoples of the trans-Jordan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ugarit (1611 words)

	Facts about topic: (Ugarit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ugarit's location was forgotten until 1928 when an Alawite (additional info and facts about Alawite) peasant accidentally opened an old tomb (A place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)) while plowing a field.
		Ugarit was destroyed at the end of the Bronze Age ((archeology) a period between the Stone and Iron ages, characterized by the manufacture and use of bronze tools and weapons).
		Ugaritic religion centered on the chief god, El (Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)), the 'father of mankind, 'the creator of the creation,' titles that were to have counterparts in the Elohim of Israel.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/u/ug/ugarit.htm (1230 words)

	Ugarit, Ras Shamra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ugarit, capital of the Ugarit kingdom, is an ancient city lying in a large artificial mound called Ras Shamra (Ra's Shamrah), 10 km north of Latakia on the Mediterranean coast of northern Syria.
		Ugarit was probably occupied from the first appearance of humans in Syria, but the most prosperous and the best-documented age in Ugarit's history, dated from about 1450 to about 1200 BC, produced great royal palaces and temples and shrines, with a high priests' library and other libraries on the acropolis.
		Ugaritic has been identified as a Semitic language, related to classical Hebrew, the language of the Old Testament, and these tablets, the first authentic specimens of pagan Canaanite literature, have been of great importance to students of language and of the Bible.
	www.syrialive.net /Tourism/MajorSites/ugarit/ugarit.htm (1395 words)

	Ugarit
		Ugaritic is a Northwest Semitic language and a close linguistic relative of biblical Hebrew.
		Moreover, that fundamental appeal may have been bolstered by a further attraction: there is debate among scholars as to the role of sexual activity in the Ugaritic worship of Baal; in the mythology, the appetites of Baal for sex and violence are considerable.
		Drawing on the evidence of the Ugaritic texts, he proposed tht the psalm was originally Canaanite; it had been modified for inclusion in Israel's hymnbook simply by the replacement of the name Baal with the personal name of Israel's God.
	www.theology.edu /ugarit.htm (5352 words)

	Syria Gate - Ugarit - By: Carol Miller
		Ugarit was also the Hittites' most effective support against the coastal pirate raids and inland plundering of the mysterious "Sea Peoples", by this time a serious threat to Syro-Canaanite stability.
		Baal ("Lord" or "Master") was associated with the storm deity, proprietor of thunder and lightning, ubiquitous among the western Semitic pantheons, initially an expression of the Aramean Hadad and later identified with the Greek Zeus.
		Ugarit was nonetheless, according to most sources, one of the most distinguished sites in the Levant, indispensable for its contribution to the history of the Semitic languages and its revelation of life in a Late Bronze Age culture.
	www.syriagate.com /Syria/about/cities/Latakia/ugarit-cm.htm (2263 words)

	Trade at Ugarit In the 13th Century
		Trade at Ugarit In The 13th Century BC In the thirteenth century BC, the Levant was the scene of an antagonism between the area's two superpowers, The Hittites from Anatolia on the north, and Egypt.
		Ugarit's merchants received promotions in the form of grants of land in return for their undertaking trading activities on the behalf of the king though their trading was far from limited to making deals for the monarchy.
		Ugarit's fate was sealed around 1200 BC with the invasion of "The Sea People" and the destruction that followed.
	www.syrianamericanwomen.org /~farras/ugarit.htm (799 words)

	syrian history -visit syria-tourism-syrian furniture-mosaic-laurel soap-olive soap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The total and irrevocable diasappearance of the civilization of Ugarit was not entirely due to enemy attacks [hence not its repopulation afterwards] and to the growing insecurity at sea, which probably caused some decline in commercial exchange.
		Ugarit was for a long time the northernmost kingdom in the territory controlled by Egypt although it was not formally part of Egypt's Empire.
		Moreover the population of Ugarit may be credited with the development of the first true alphabet: simplified cuneiform signs were used for an alphabet of 32 letters probably in the 15th century BC.
	www.syriangate.com /syria/ugarit.htm (956 words)

	Ugarit
		Ugarit was a town of many official buildings and temples to deities like Baal and Dagan, together with a wide selection of libraries.
		On the tablets of Ugarit there are recorded 4 languages (the local tongue Ugarit, Akkadian, Sumerian and Hurrian), written in 7 different scripts.
		Ugarit was a Semitic language which in its earlier stages was written with 30 cuneiform signs, but by the 13th century BCE, 25 or 22 signs had become common.
	i-cias.com /e.o/ugarit.htm (405 words)

	Ugarit. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ugarit was probably occupied from the first appearance of humans in Syria.
		By the 4th millennium Ugarit had reached a high stage of development and was part of the general civilization of ancient Syria.
		Early in the 2d millennium, because of invasions from the north and east, Ugarit turned to an alliance with Egypt, and from this period Egyptian influence was strong in the city.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ug/Ugarit.html (504 words)

	Syria Museum: Ugarit
		This golden bowl decorated with a hunting scene is one of a pair which was buried on the Acropolis of Ugarit, near the temple of Baal.
		The ibexes belong to the iconographic repertoire of Ugaritic mythology and are frequently portrayed on a variety of objects.
		The craftsman made use of the hollow interior of the elephant's tusk, while the disc-shaped lid was obtained by sawing a slice from the solid part.
	www.syriamuseum.com /ugarit (1599 words)

	UGARIT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ugarit was an ancient cosmopolitan port city, sited on the Mediterranean coast of northern Syria a few kilometers north of the modern city of Latakia.
		Scribes in Ugarit appear to have originated the alphabet about 1400 BCE; 30 letters, corresponding to sounds, were adapted from cuneiform characters and inscribed on clay tablets.
		It is generally agreed that Ugarit was already destroyed in the 8th year of Ramses III Whether Ugarit was destroyed before or after Hattusa, the Hittite capital, is debated.
	www.yotor.org /wiki/en/ug/Ugarit.htm (999 words)

	The City State of Ugarit
		Ugarit was a city on the Mediterranean coast of northern Syria.
		The first Ugarit contact with Egypt (and the first exact dating of Ugaritic civilization) comes during the reign of the Middle Kingdom pharaoh Senusret I, from a carnelian bead identified with him.
		During the 18th and 17th centuries BC (Thirteenth Dynasty and Second Intermediate Period), Ugarit was under the control of new tribes related to the Hyksos (probably Hurrians or Mitannians) who mutilated the Egyptian monuments.
	www.touregypt.net /support/ugarit.htm (321 words)

	Ugaritic cuneiform
		Ugaritic was generally written from left to right in horizontal rows, though there are examples of it written in the opposite direction.
		Ugaritic, a Semitic language closely related to Phoenician which was spoken in the city state of Ugarit in northern Syria.
		Ugarit flourished from the 14th century BC until 1200 BC, when it was destroyed.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/ugaritic.htm (240 words)

	Torah, Ugartic Bible (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ugarit was at its political, religious and economic height around the 12th century BC and thus its period of greatness corresponds with the entry of Israel into Canaan.
		The discovery of the Ugaritic texts has helped us to understand that the word was divided incorrectly by the Hebrew scribe (who was as unfamiliar as we are with what the words were supposed to mean).
		Worship at Ugarit was essentially a drunken orgy in which priests and worshippers indulged in excessive drinking and excessive sexuality.
	phoenicia.org /ugarbibl.html (3222 words)

	Ugarit, Syria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is the site of Ugarit, the kingdom that had a golden past in administration, education, diplomacy, law, religion and economics between 16th and 13th centuries BC.
		Ugarit is one of the few Bronze Age sites in the Middle East which offers identifiable remains to the casual visitor and not simply to the specialist.
		Documents, statues and jewels from the Ugarit kingdom are on display at the Lattakia, Aleppo and Tartus museums.
	www.atlastours.net /syria/ugarit.html (166 words)

	Ugarit-Ras Shamra and Conventional vs Revised Chronology
		Ugarit was a maritime commercial city with a palace [0150]; its population was composed of various ethnic groups.
		This obstacle was the fact that the Ugarit texts and objects were considered to be contemporaneous with the Egyptian and Mycenaean worlds of the 15th and 14th century BC.
		Ugarit was also not far away from the old city of Alalakh, Tell Atchana, where one known king by the name of `Idri-mi' inscribed a statue of himself with the story of his life.
	www.specialtyinterests.net /ugarit.html (3710 words)

	Ugarit on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The lowest level of the mound dates from the Neolithic period, the 5th millennium BC It developed as a great center of commerce, having important connections with Mesopotamia.
		BC were the period of highest prosperity for Ugarit.
		Il Libro dei morti dell'antica Ugarit: Le piu antiche testimonianze sull'Aldila prima della Bibbia.(Review)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/U/Ugarit.asp (791 words)

	Denver Journal - 5:0106 - Religious Texts from Ugarit
		Although Ugarit was technically not in Canaan, it lay just outside the boundaries of that land, the city was close enough in time and place to represent what may be assumed to be similar sentiments regarding its deities as those found among the Canaanites themselves.
		Because the Ugarit religious texts represent by far the largest number of texts dealing with these matters, they have become an invaluable source for the study of the Bible.
		No doubt Ugarit represented a successful cosmopolitan center with far greater sophistication in many areas than the land that the biblical writers came from; and no doubt modern readers of the Bible read a more negative assessment of Canaanite culture into the Bible than what is actually written.
	www.denverseminary.edu /dj/articles02/0100/0106.php (932 words)

	History of Ugarit
		It was later discovered that the Ugarit cuneiform was a phonogram, or alphabetic, where each cuneiform sign represented one letter of an alphabet.
		The city of Ugarit was occupied from pre-historic times to about 1200 BCE when it was mysteriously deserted.
		The origins of the Ugarit cuneiform script is not known but can be assumed that it was derived out of the same Pictographic script used to write Hebrew, just as the Sumerian cuneiform evolved out of a pictographic script.
	www.ancient-hebrew.org /22_history.html (394 words)

	Ugarit
		Ugarit, an ancient village located in the region of Canaan on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, north of Beirut, in what is now Syria, plays a tremendously important role in the in understanding of the Old Testament.
		Ugarit is blessed with a very long history, which started around 6000 BCE, during the Neolithic period.
		The height of the Ugarit political, economic and religious centers was in the 12th century.
	www.radessays.com /viewpaper/62577/Ugarit.html (251 words)

	Canaanite/Ugaritic Mythology FAQ, ver. 1.2
		Not found in the Ugarit texts, this sky god was the chief of the pantheon at the Syrian city of Alalakh.
		Ugarit's Dagon was the father of Baal and may have been identified with El.
		While the Ugaritic texts tell us of El, Athirat, and Rahmay's creation of the gracious gods, for the creation of the universe we must rely on the Greek sources of Philo of Byblos, Athenaeus, and Damascius, which are thoroughly drenched in Greek cosmology.
	home.comcast.net /~chris.s/canaanite-faq.html (6346 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ugarit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		History of Ugarit: And its impact on the Ancient Hebrew Language and Alphabet.
		Ugarit was an independent kingdom from the 18
		Ugarit as a State, was not however to survive the invasion of the Philistines, the tribes that came down from the north, sometimes called the Sea Peoples, and overwhelmed the country at the end of the 13
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ugarit (502 words)

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