When someone smashes up your boat and claims you did it
November 17, 2024 at 11:14 AM
When someone smashes up your boat and claims you did it
do NOT add melissa bluesky on discord unless you want your DMs to look like this
April 2, 2024 at 4:40 PM
do NOT add melissa bluesky on discord unless you want your DMs to look like this
Came across this -- from ancient Syria, twenty-three hundred years ago, a solid gold dagger. How ostentatious can you get! Heavy, useless, beautiful!
Ceremonial Dagger from Ugarit | National Museum Of Damascus
Solid gold ceremonial dagger, 27.2 cm long and 200 g in weight, discovered at Ugarit (Ras Shamra), Syria, c.1300 BC. Features an engraved palm-branch design on the handle, reflecting luxury craftsmans...
virtual-museum-syria.org
June 27, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Came across this -- from ancient Syria, twenty-three hundred years ago, a solid gold dagger. How ostentatious can you get! Heavy, useless, beautiful!
The next blockbuster: The Sea People
Heroes: Rameses the Great & Ammurapi of Ugarit
Villain: Odysseus
Plot twist: climate change caused mass migration
Final scene: Phoenician makes it out of Ugarit with an iron sword
Film-making twist: archaeologists consulted
Chris Nolan: call me
Visuals:
Heroes: Rameses the Great & Ammurapi of Ugarit
Villain: Odysseus
Plot twist: climate change caused mass migration
Final scene: Phoenician makes it out of Ugarit with an iron sword
Film-making twist: archaeologists consulted
Chris Nolan: call me
Visuals:
August 5, 2026 at 11:51 AM
The next blockbuster: The Sea People
Heroes: Rameses the Great & Ammurapi of Ugarit
Villain: Odysseus
Plot twist: climate change caused mass migration
Final scene: Phoenician makes it out of Ugarit with an iron sword
Film-making twist: archaeologists consulted
Chris Nolan: call me
Visuals:
Heroes: Rameses the Great & Ammurapi of Ugarit
Villain: Odysseus
Plot twist: climate change caused mass migration
Final scene: Phoenician makes it out of Ugarit with an iron sword
Film-making twist: archaeologists consulted
Chris Nolan: call me
Visuals:
Detail from an ivory box (1250 BC). It depicts a goddess as a mistress of animals, possibly Astarte or Asherah, flanked by two mountain goats. From Mīna al-Bayḍā near Ras Shamra (Ugarit), Syria.
(13.7x12cm)
Louvre Museum, Paris 🇫🇷
#archaeohistories
(13.7x12cm)
Louvre Museum, Paris 🇫🇷
#archaeohistories
June 13, 2026 at 5:53 AM
Detail from an ivory box (1250 BC). It depicts a goddess as a mistress of animals, possibly Astarte or Asherah, flanked by two mountain goats. From Mīna al-Bayḍā near Ras Shamra (Ugarit), Syria.
(13.7x12cm)
Louvre Museum, Paris 🇫🇷
#archaeohistories
(13.7x12cm)
Louvre Museum, Paris 🇫🇷
#archaeohistories
Quedada bluitera en Ugarit Sants, Pg. Sant Antoni, 21, Sants-Montjuïc, 08014 Barcelona
April 18, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Quedada bluitera en Ugarit Sants, Pg. Sant Antoni, 21, Sants-Montjuïc, 08014 Barcelona
Thread of all my currently published books! (1/x):
First:
"Unburning Fame: Horses, Dragons, Beings of Smoke, and Other Indo-European Motifs in Ugarit and the Hebrew Bible" (2017)
and
"Drought, Death, and the Sun in Ugarit and Ancient Israel: A Philological and Comparative Study" (2014)
First:
"Unburning Fame: Horses, Dragons, Beings of Smoke, and Other Indo-European Motifs in Ugarit and the Hebrew Bible" (2017)
and
"Drought, Death, and the Sun in Ugarit and Ancient Israel: A Philological and Comparative Study" (2014)
November 18, 2024 at 2:25 AM
Thread of all my currently published books! (1/x):
First:
"Unburning Fame: Horses, Dragons, Beings of Smoke, and Other Indo-European Motifs in Ugarit and the Hebrew Bible" (2017)
and
"Drought, Death, and the Sun in Ugarit and Ancient Israel: A Philological and Comparative Study" (2014)
First:
"Unburning Fame: Horses, Dragons, Beings of Smoke, and Other Indo-European Motifs in Ugarit and the Hebrew Bible" (2017)
and
"Drought, Death, and the Sun in Ugarit and Ancient Israel: A Philological and Comparative Study" (2014)
TIL that there’s a bunch of correspondence from the Bronze Age collapse from Ugarit (on the modern Syrian coast - near modern Latakya). The ruler of Ugarit writing increasingly desperate pleas to other more powerful rulers asking for help.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugarit
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugarit
February 15, 2026 at 9:25 PM
TIL that there’s a bunch of correspondence from the Bronze Age collapse from Ugarit (on the modern Syrian coast - near modern Latakya). The ruler of Ugarit writing increasingly desperate pleas to other more powerful rulers asking for help.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugarit
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugarit
if you think about the city of Ugarit at least once a week youve crossed the rubicon of bronze age obsession
Saw this new-to-me macro on reddit and I figured I'd share it here where it is bound to be extremely useful
January 25, 2026 at 8:21 PM
if you think about the city of Ugarit at least once a week youve crossed the rubicon of bronze age obsession
This is haunting...
It's the oldest piece of music for which we have both the words and the notes. A song to the Hurrian goddess Nikkal, it was written on clay tablets around 3500 years ago, and was discovered in the 1950s in the ruins of the ancient city of Ugarit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8tf...
It's the oldest piece of music for which we have both the words and the notes. A song to the Hurrian goddess Nikkal, it was written on clay tablets around 3500 years ago, and was discovered in the 1950s in the ruins of the ancient city of Ugarit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8tf...
THE OLDEST SONG IN THE WORLD
YouTube video by Peter Pringle
www.youtube.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:48 PM
This is haunting...
It's the oldest piece of music for which we have both the words and the notes. A song to the Hurrian goddess Nikkal, it was written on clay tablets around 3500 years ago, and was discovered in the 1950s in the ruins of the ancient city of Ugarit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8tf...
It's the oldest piece of music for which we have both the words and the notes. A song to the Hurrian goddess Nikkal, it was written on clay tablets around 3500 years ago, and was discovered in the 1950s in the ruins of the ancient city of Ugarit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8tf...
Just saw a post mentioning 3 May is the anniversary of the earliest recorded solar eclipse. Known as the 'Ugarit Eclipse', it is said to have occurred ~3400 years ago (1374 BCE).
This date was revised to 5 March 1223 BCE because Mars was recorded by them in the sky.
📸 Museum of Lost Things
This date was revised to 5 March 1223 BCE because Mars was recorded by them in the sky.
📸 Museum of Lost Things
May 4, 2026 at 2:26 AM
Just saw a post mentioning 3 May is the anniversary of the earliest recorded solar eclipse. Known as the 'Ugarit Eclipse', it is said to have occurred ~3400 years ago (1374 BCE).
This date was revised to 5 March 1223 BCE because Mars was recorded by them in the sky.
📸 Museum of Lost Things
This date was revised to 5 March 1223 BCE because Mars was recorded by them in the sky.
📸 Museum of Lost Things
Baal brought the rains that provided crops for the land and I think we can conclusively say that makes them less evil than the modern Democratic Party.
February 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Baal brought the rains that provided crops for the land and I think we can conclusively say that makes them less evil than the modern Democratic Party.
wikimedia commons had ugarit in a lebanon category up until today lmao
September 27, 2026 at 6:56 AM
wikimedia commons had ugarit in a lebanon category up until today lmao
This Day in #History 1374 BCE
Solar eclipse lasting 2 minutes 7 seconds is seen at Ugarit by Mesopotamian astronomers, "On the day of the new moon, in the month of Hiyar, the Sun was put to shame, and went down in the daytime, with Mars in attendance."
Solar eclipse lasting 2 minutes 7 seconds is seen at Ugarit by Mesopotamian astronomers, "On the day of the new moon, in the month of Hiyar, the Sun was put to shame, and went down in the daytime, with Mars in attendance."
May 3, 2026 at 10:12 PM
This Day in #History 1374 BCE
Solar eclipse lasting 2 minutes 7 seconds is seen at Ugarit by Mesopotamian astronomers, "On the day of the new moon, in the month of Hiyar, the Sun was put to shame, and went down in the daytime, with Mars in attendance."
Solar eclipse lasting 2 minutes 7 seconds is seen at Ugarit by Mesopotamian astronomers, "On the day of the new moon, in the month of Hiyar, the Sun was put to shame, and went down in the daytime, with Mars in attendance."
Hear the World’s Oldest Instrument, the “Neanderthal Flute,” Dating Back Over 43,000 Years
Hear the World’s Oldest Instrument, the “Neanderthal Flute,” Dating Back Over 43,000 Years
Several years ago, we brought you a transcription and a couple of audio interpretations of the oldest known song in the world, discovered in the ancient Syrian city of Ugarit and dating back to the 14...
www.openculture.com
September 29, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Hear the World’s Oldest Instrument, the “Neanderthal Flute,” Dating Back Over 43,000 Years
fun fact about the crushing weight of human history: the city of Ugarit was abandoned ~3000 years ago. previously to this, it was continually inhabited for >7000 years. and the people who settled it would have ALSO understood themselves as the inheritors to a history that is now totally lost to us
October 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
fun fact about the crushing weight of human history: the city of Ugarit was abandoned ~3000 years ago. previously to this, it was continually inhabited for >7000 years. and the people who settled it would have ALSO understood themselves as the inheritors to a history that is now totally lost to us
The city of Ugarit lowkey fell off
July 12, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The city of Ugarit lowkey fell off
Israel forced the Sea People to invade Ugarit 😤
March 30, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Israel forced the Sea People to invade Ugarit 😤
It is likely that we have already received our last tablet from Ugarit.
It would do some good for people to start doing some reading on The Bronze Age collapse.
We're not far from a 1-to-1 likelihood, and fascists are miscalculating.
The palace always forgets that the mercenaries and the hungry are often the same population wearing different hats on different days.
We're not far from a 1-to-1 likelihood, and fascists are miscalculating.
The palace always forgets that the mercenaries and the hungry are often the same population wearing different hats on different days.
April 10, 2026 at 11:53 AM
It is likely that we have already received our last tablet from Ugarit.
Read an #excerpt from UGARIT (Tales of a Lost City) by Janet Tamaren.
marysbookcase.blogspot.com/2025/10/read...
#Ugarit #TalesOfALostCity #JanetTamaren #HistoricalFiction #AncientNearEast #BronzeAgeCollapse
@cathiedunn.bsky.social
marysbookcase.blogspot.com/2025/10/read...
#Ugarit #TalesOfALostCity #JanetTamaren #HistoricalFiction #AncientNearEast #BronzeAgeCollapse
@cathiedunn.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Read an #excerpt from UGARIT (Tales of a Lost City) by Janet Tamaren.
marysbookcase.blogspot.com/2025/10/read...
#Ugarit #TalesOfALostCity #JanetTamaren #HistoricalFiction #AncientNearEast #BronzeAgeCollapse
@cathiedunn.bsky.social
marysbookcase.blogspot.com/2025/10/read...
#Ugarit #TalesOfALostCity #JanetTamaren #HistoricalFiction #AncientNearEast #BronzeAgeCollapse
@cathiedunn.bsky.social
I don't drink, but for those of you nursing hangovers this morning, you might like to know that 'hair of the dog' is first attested as a hangover cure in the religious tablets of Ugarit, c. 1200 BCE.
January 1, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I don't drink, but for those of you nursing hangovers this morning, you might like to know that 'hair of the dog' is first attested as a hangover cure in the religious tablets of Ugarit, c. 1200 BCE.
if you hear me say the word "ugarit" its time to either run for your life or settle down with provisions and water to last you a few days
July 28, 2026 at 6:30 PM
if you hear me say the word "ugarit" its time to either run for your life or settle down with provisions and water to last you a few days