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It's #InternationalLegoClassicismDay! So, to celebrate, here's the story of the first Ugaritic text to be discovered, via the medium of Lego. #ILCD2019 #Lego
In 1929 a farm labourer at Minet el-Beida on the coast of what's now Syria struck a stone while ploughing a field. It was part of a bronze age chamber tomb. #ILCD2019 
Soon the French mandate's archaeologists descended on the site and on the tell of Ras Shamra just inland. They were led by Claude Schaeffer, who would oversee work there for decades to come. #ILCD2019
