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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...

made it clear that in Mesopotamian (Babylonian and Assyrian) civilization, clay was the basic material used for writing purposes, the equivalent of modern paper. While the clay was soft, wedge-shaped marks were imprinted with a stylus; this is the meaning of cuneiform writing. Then the soft marked clay was baked hard so that the writing was permanently imprinted on its surface. FIGURE 3: The reverse of a clay tablet discovered at Ras Shamra, 1929, listing names of persons Thus the discovery of
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