Ugarit
Late Bronze Age port capital in northern Syria; its cuneiform archive revealed the Ugaritic language and one of the earliest alphabets before the city fell in the Bronze Age collapse.
Dated events and their evidence
- 7,000 BCE mainstream
first settlement (Neolithic) source - 1,400 BCE mainstream
Ugaritic alphabet developed (30 cuneiform letters) source - 1,185 BCE mainstream
destroyed in the Bronze Age collapse, likely by the Sea Peoples source
Where
35.6019° N, 35.7819° E
Sources
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