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Ugarit (Ras Shamra) - Includes photo gallery and tourist information.
The discovery of an ancient city: Ugarit - From ArabicNews. An interview with epigraphist Pierre Bordrevil on the discoveries from Ugarit.
Ugarit - Overview of archaeological finds, with emphasis on the literary tablets.
Wikipedia - Ugarit - Encyclopedic entry for this ancient cosmopolitan port city.
Ugaritic Writing - Extract from "The Alpha and the Omega" by Jim A. Cornwell, including chart of the Ugaritic cuneiform alphabet.
Homs Online: Ugarit - Includes introductory article and photo gallery.
Ugaritic Translation Software - A total of 1389 transliterated Ugaritic tablets, full concordance searching, version of Cyrus Gordon's dictionary, second partial dictionary, and a brute-force parser. For Microsoft Windows, e-mailed password to unlock.
Ancient Ugarit text studied by US researcher using computers - From ArabicNews. A discussion on how the paleographic study of the Cuneiform alphabetic texts from Ras Shamra is being revolutionised by the use of computers.
The Edinburgh Ras Shamra Project - Includes introduction, bibliography, museum, and texts.
Canaanite/Ugaritic Mythology - FAQ about the Canaanite pantheon, as recovered from the city of Ugarit in what is now western Syria, by Christopher Siren.

Ugaritic script - The Ugaritic alphabet is a cuneiform abjad (alphabet without vowels), used from around 1500 BC for the Ugaritic language, an extinct Canaanite language discovered in Ugarit, Syria. It has 31 distinct letters.
Ugaritic language - The Ugaritic language is only known in the form of writings found in the lost city of Ugarit in Syria since its discovery by French archaeologists in 1928. It has been extremely important for scholars of the Old Testament in clarifying Hebrew texts and has revealed more of how Judaism ...
Lotan - Lotan or Lawtan is the seven-headed sea serpent or dragon of Ugaritic myths (Etymologically = the serpenat of Law or Lot). He is either a pet of the god Yaw or perhaps Yaw himself, who was also known as Yam (sea) or Nahar (river); the cosmic ocean of myth is often known as a great stream.
Bethoron - Bethoron (also transliterated Beth-Horon) was the name for two adjacent towns, Bethoron Elyon ("Upper Bethoron"), and Bethoron Tahton ("Lower Bethoron"), named for the Egypto-Canaanite deity Horon mentioned in Ugaritic literature and other texts. Strategically located on the Gibeon-Aijalon road, the towns guarded the important "ascent of Beth-Horon.
Central Semitic languages - The Central Semitic languages are an intermediate group of Semitic languages, comprising Arabic and Northwest Semitic (including Canaanite (Hebrew), Aramaic and Ugaritic).