Show r t 0 11 h- h i 10 t Worlds World's Oldest Library Discovered in Syria What is b 1 supposed to be the most moct ancient library In the world consist consistIng consistIng lag Ing of documents written In the first alphabetic signs known to savants ant was as dl discovered lO In Syria ria by a French archeological e lane lare e and anti small tablets engraved with letters that are neither nor Ass Assyrian cuneiform characters but evidently e parts of the r I first firt t alpha alphabet bet made of or 26 G and 27 7 sl signs ns were ere round found by a young lung Alsatian archeologist on the Syrian coast of or the Mediterranean at u a place called lias Hac Shamra noir near I I lya The exile had bad discovered ered there a n oils the 9 year ear lar old ruins of a Phoenician palace and town and numerous ancient vases cases Jars anti and statutes of or great greut archeological and historical value tulue ul ue The opinion a was put forward h b bv the Academic tint that these ruins represented traces of or an colony that existed on ou the coast 2 2000 y J years ears before the present pm era and whose hose civilization ll was as of the I period Salomon tile the French historian who ho was present when the report was pre pro presented presented seated declared that the tha cry was a n most one and that It would be of ot the greatest im importance for the study tull of or ancient his history history history tory |