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Metal Detecting Finds in Syria

1 published discovery in the Artefacts category from Syria — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.

Artefacts from Syria

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Famous findLate Bronze Age, about 1400 to 1200 BC · found 1928

Ugarit: a farmer's plough struck a tomb in Syria and uncovered a lost city, its gold and its alphabet

Syria · ArtefactsFF 292

In 1928 a farmer ploughing near the bay of Minet el-Beida on the Syrian coast struck a stone slab covering an ancient tomb. It led archaeologists to Ugarit, a great Bronze Age port whose finds include gold bowls and one of the world's earliest alphabets.