Prosperous Late Bronze Age port city-state on the Syrian coast whose cuneiform archive preserved the earliest known alphabetic script.
Destroyed and permanently abandoned c. 1190–1185 BCE, most likely by the Sea Peoples during the Late Bronze Age collapse; tablets found at the site record desperate appeals for help, and the city was never reoccupied.
The atlas holds 4 border frames for Ugarit — the shape you scrub through changes in 2000 BC · 1650 BC · 1594 BC · 1200 BC.
Authoritative synthesis of the excavations; covers the city-state's administration, trade networks, and archive.
Accessible introduction linking Ugaritic texts to biblical literature and Levantine religion.