Damascus-SANA
A cuneiform text in Akkadian syllabary preserved in the National Museum in Damascus documents that Syria was the first to send scholars in the world.
Syrian antiquities expert and reader of ancient inscriptions at the General Directorate of Antiquities and Museums, historian Dr. Mahmoud al-Sayed told SANA that the cuneiform text is a message that talks about sending an Ugaritian student to Cyprus to learn the Cypriot language. Trade between Ugarit and Cyprus and the text dates back to the Modern Bronze Age.
Al-Sayed added that the Syrian people have believed since ancient times that science and its development constitute the cornerstone of building prosperous civilizations, and the epigraphic inscriptions document this matter, indicating that the flourishing of economic and commercial relations between the Kingdom of Ugarit and Cyprus and the need for translators to facilitate the completion of commercial exchanges prompted the Kingdom to send students to Cyprus to learn the language Cypriot.
Mohammed Imad Al-Daghli
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