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  1. Ancient trading-city kingdom (modern Ras
  2. Shamra) on the Syrian coast. It was excavated
  3. by the French archaeologist Claude Schaeffer
  4. (1898-1982) from 1929, with finds dating from
  5. about 7000 to the 15th-13th centuries BC,
  6. including the earliest known alphabet.
  7.