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In 1929, archeologists in Syria discovered beneath the soil of a small hill the remains and libraries of the ancient city of Ugarit, which had been destroyed by foreign invaders shortly after 1200 B.C. Written in a non-technical fashion, Ugarit and the Old Testament tells the story of that discovery and describes the life and civilization of Ugarit. Peter Craigie recounts and assesses the...

floor of the library (which was dated to about the fifteenth-twelfth centuries B.C.) was not built on virgin soil. Beneath the library floors was evidence of another level of settlement; he found objects indicating that the area had been a cemetery, dating approximately to the twenty-first—sixteenth centuries. Below the cemetery there was evidence of a still more ancient level of settlement, dating from the early or middle third millennium. After establishing the antiquity of the mound as a place
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