Claude F. A. Schaeffer
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Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer (1898 – 1982), aka Claude Schaeffer, led the French excavation team that begun working on the site of Ugarit
in 1929, uncovering the Ugaritic religious texts.
Ugarit
Ugarit was an ancient port city in the eastern Mediterranean at the Ras Shamra headland near Latakia, Syria. It is located near Minet el-Beida in northern Syria. It is some seven miles north of Laodicea ad Mare and approximately fifty miles east of Cyprus...
in 1929, uncovering the Ugaritic religious texts.