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Listen to the world's oldest-known melody

Edit Fox News 26 Sep 2016
In 1950, a collection of 29 tablets was discovered in the ruins of Ugarit, an ancient city in the northern region of present-day Syria, but only one had survived the intervening centuries well enough to be deciphered ... ....

Listen To The Oldest Song In The World. Warning: It’s A Bit Bobbins

Edit NME 28 Jul 2016
Don’t get us wrong, we like old music. Robert Johnson? Epic. The Rolling Stones? Ace. Elvis? Cracking. Lead Belly? Majestic. But it turns out that not all old tunes are gold tunes ... Known as the 'Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal' – catchy - Nikkal being the Akkadian goddess of orchards, it was discovered on a tablet in the 1950s in the ancient city of Ugarit in Canaan (now Syria) ... ....

Is This The World's Oldest Melody?

Edit IFL Science 13 Jul 2016
Good music is timeless, they say ... An excavation in the 1950s in the ancient city of Ugarit, a coastal town in modern-day Syria, discovered a set of 29 tablets from around 1400 BCE, at the near end of the Hurrian civilization ... ....

Listen to the world's OLDEST song: Ancient melody was recreated from hymn cut into clay ...

Edit The Daily Mail 12 Jul 2016
The song is a cult hymn that was discovered on a set of tablets found in the ancient Syrian city of Ugarit in the early 1950s. The tablets had markings called cuneiform signs, a form of musical notations ... ....

Intensive shelling target about 15 areas in the city of Aleppo, and tens of airstrikes target the city’s neighborhoods and its countryside (SOHR - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Jun 2016
Tens of shells launched by the rebel and Islamic Factions and fell after midnight yesterday on regime forces' controlled areas in the neighborhoods of al-Midan, Bostan al-Zahra, Jabriya, Jamiliyyeh, Ismailia, Sulaymaniyah, al-Hazzaza, al-Sayed Ali, Al-Azizia, al-Mohafaza, and Maysaloon, the outskirts of the general park, Ugarit Street and al-Abbara ......

The Bible is right after all

Edit Jamaica Observer 05 Jun 2016
Archaeology is a fascinating discipline ... And those memorable Sunday school accounts of the worship of Baal by the Canaanites have been backed up evidence unearthed at the site of fabled Ugarit on the Mediterranean ... Keller describes himself as an ordinary journalist and a non-theologian who in the course of his studies came across the reports of European archaeologists on their excavation of the cities of Mari and Ugarit in 1933 ... ....

Easy as Alep, Bet, Gimel? Researchers uncover the roots of the English alphabet

Edit The Daily Mail 06 Apr 2016
The University of Cambridge says the modern English alphabet was first used more than 3,000 years ago in Ugaritic, which is now Syria. It may have spread through travel and trade ... ....

Easy as Alep, Bet, Gimel? Cambridge research explores social context of ancient writing (University of Cambridge)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Apr 2016
Alphabetical order as we would recognise it first appeared over three thousand years ago in Ugaritic, written in a cuneiform script made of wedge-shaped signs impressed on clay tablets. The Ugaritic alphabet was in use in the ancient city of Ugarit, uncovered at Ras Shamra in modern Syria ... The destruction of Ugarit in around 1200 BCE was not the end for alphabetical order....

For the first time in excavations of ancient Near Eastern sites: Winery Found in Canaanite Palace (University of Haifa)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Mar 2016
(Source. University of Haifa). For the first time in excavations of ancient Near Eastern sites, a winery has been discovered within a Canaanite palace ... Eric Cline of George Washington University, and Prof ... On the basis of ancient Ugaritic documents, the value of the wine in the storeroom can be estimated at a minimum of 1,900 silver shekels - an enormous sum that would have been sufficient, for example, to purchase three merchant ships....

American Oriental Society Awards Prestigious Prize to Bar-Ilan Scholar Dr. Noga Ayali-Darshan (Bar-Ilan University)

Edit Public Technologies 01 Mar 2016
(Source. Bar-Ilan University). American Oriental Society Awards Prestigious Prize to Bar-Ilan Scholar Dr. Noga Ayali-Darshan. Date. 2016-03-01 Hour. 10.36. Dr ... Dr. Ayali-Darshan was awarded the Prize for her article 'The Other Version of the Story of the Storm-god's Combat with the Sea in the Light of Egyptian, Ugaritic, and Hurro-Hittite Texts', which was published in the Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions....

Syria Before The War

Edit Huffington Post 09 Feb 2016
Syria, a�country which is known as the ancient pearl and the begining of�civilization (9000BC), is home to the bronze age (3000-2000BC), where writing was invented�and the rise of Ugarit brought the oldest written alphabet and the first musical notation ... The Hurrian Hymn, Ugarit ... Clay Tablet of Ugaritic Alphabet. The Ugaritic alphabet is the earliest known alphabet that was used in the semitic kingdoms in the 12th and 13th century BC....

15 awesome designs for this wedding season

Edit Indian Express 20 Nov 2015
The earliest written evidence that mentions henna specifically used as an adornment for a bride is in the Ugaritic legend of Baal and Anath, inscribed on a tablet dating back to 2100 BC, found in northwest Syria ... ....

Putin’s Middle East Strategy Decoded

Edit Minds 26 Oct 2015
Russia has overseas military bases in only one country, outside the borders of the previous Soviet Union, Syria – a naval base in Tartus and an air base in Latakia (ancient Ugarit) ... In addition, for the Sunni world, a defeat of Sunni ISIL to a apostate Shiite alliance of Alawites (read the descendents of Canaanite Ugarit and worshippers of Baal), ......
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