After more than a decade of silence, the ancient civilization of Ugarit, once one of the most influential trade hubs of the Late Bronze Age, is coming back into focus. Archaeologists have resumed excavations near Latakia, northwestern Syria, revealing long-buried layers of a city that shaped the cultural and linguistic history of the ancient world.Good, find more texts![...]
Ugarit is, of course, not the birthplace of the alphabet. Current evidence puts that in the Sinai some centuries earlier than the Ugaritic Kingdom, although a case is currently being argued for alphabetic inscriptions in northern Syria in the mid-third millennium BCE.
A few PaleoJudaica posts on Ugarit and the Ugaritic language are here, here, and here. But it comes up often.
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