# Ugarit

> The Metropolitan Museum of Art Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art, 2004. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The date the Ugarit excavations…

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# Ugarit

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art, 2004. _Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, The Metropolitan Museum of Art_.

A short history of Ugarit: found by the accidental discovery of a tomb at Ras Shamra in 1928, excavated by a French mission under Claude Schaeffer from 1929, destroyed about 1200 BC and never resettled.

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## What it's used for here

The date the Ugarit excavations began.

## Cited by on this site 1 record

[A French mission under Claude Schaeffer begins excavating Ugarit at Ras Shamra](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/bronze-age-collapse/events/EVT0D464P7Y0KE6/a-french-mission-under-claude-schaeffer-begins-excavating)

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## Cite it

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Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art, T. M. M. o. A. (2004). Ugarit. Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://www.metmuseum.org/en/essays/ugarit
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[Read it free at metmuseum.org](https://www.metmuseum.org/en/essays/ugarit)

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