Show r H 2 He H Htoo too v I- I Worlds World's Oldest Library Discovered in Syria V What hat Is supposed to be the most ancIent library In the world consist consistIng consistIng Ing of ot documents written In the first alphabetic signs known to Sa savants ants was discovered ered In n Syria by a French archeological expedition I I i large larbe and small tablets engraved wIth letters that are neither nOr Assyrian As cuneiform characters but evidently e pins parts of the first alpha alphabet alphabet bet het made of ot 20 0 a and 27 7 7 signs were ere found bv bu a 8 young Alsatian archeologist on the Syrian en co l t of ot the led Iter at a 0 place called Has near The exile had hud dl discovered CO ered there a oils the 4 Oaf year vear lar old ruins of ot a Phoenician palace and unel town to an and numerous ancient vases Jurs jars and statutes statute of great archeological and historical value The opinion was as put forward by the Academic that these ruIn ruins represented traces of an nn colony tint th existed on the PhoenIcian const coast 2000 years tars ears before the present era and anel whose civilization was of the period Salomon the famous French historian who was present when hen the report WIS pre pre- presented pre pre- presented presented declared that the discovery err was as a most extraordinary one and that It n would be of the greatest urn for tor the study of ot ancient hIs tor |