On excavation of the city of Ugarit, found by accident in 1928–29 at Ras Shamra, Syria, several deposits of cuneiform clay tablets were found; all dating from the last phase of Ugarit, around 1200 BCE.[2] The texts were found to be written in an otherwise unknown Northwest Semitic language.[1] Other tablets found in the same location were written in other cuneiform languages (Sumerian, Hurrian and Akkadian), as well as Egyptian and Luwian hieroglyphs, and Cypro-Minoan.[1]