Ancient linguistics: Ugaritic and Hebrew
Ugaritic inscription on an axe. Image from WikiMedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ugaritic_inscription_on_an_axe.jpg This article from the Jewish Daily Forward (New York) looks at how the ancient language Ugaritic (written in cuneiform characters) was decoded and how scholars noted its linguistic similarities to other Semitic languages of the ancient Near East, such as Phoenician and Biblical-era Hebrew Click here to read the article in Forward If you want to follow “Philologos’s’” recommendation and