Any effort to discover the origins of the Ugaritic dynasty attested in the Late Bronze Age
archives is made enormously difficult by the scarceness of written sources. As is well known …

1.1. 1 The kingdom of Ugarit covered a territory of considerable size. 1 It covered about
5,425 km2 when its expansion was greatest and 2,200 km2 without the additional territories …

Representing a new approach to the field of Amorite studies, this dissertation, by analyzing
the Middle Bronze Age history of the polity of Ugarit, specifically considers whether the …

A study of the city-administration of Ugarit has to be limited to the period during which written
documents were produced, and that was the last phase of the Late Bronze Age, ca …

With seventy years of nearly continuous excavation, Ras Shamra-Ugarit qualifies as the
most intensively explored city in Syria. In the last two centuries before her downfall it is also …

From the tell of Ras Shamra (“Fennel Hill”), on the northwest Syrian coast about 10 km north
of Latakia, remnants of the capital of a Late Bronze kingdom that in antiquity bore the name …

Since the discovery of Ugarit in 1929, there has been much debate concerning how the city
was destroyed. Many scholars have attempted to explain the reasons for its sudden …

In March 1928, a farmer was tilling his field near the Syrian coast in the area of the natural
port known as Minet el-Beida when his plow struck a large stone slab just under the surface …

The foundation legends of the first capitals of Armenia and Georgia–Armawir and Armazi–
have several common features. A specific cult of the moon god is attested in both cities in the …

Introduction underwent a significant development, which is reflected in sources preserved
on both sides. 4" Beginning of the victory of the King of Upper The nature of this processand …