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Ancient trading-city kingdom (modern Ras
Shamra) on the Syrian coast. It was excavated
by the French archaeologist Claude Schaeffer
(1898-1982) from 1929, with finds dating from
about 7000 to the 15th-13th centuries BC,
including the earliest known alphabet.