Charles Virolleaud
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Jean Charles Gabriel Virolleaud (1879, Barbezieux, Charente
– 1968) was a French archaeologist, one of the excavators of Ugarit
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Charente
Charente is a department in southwestern France, in the Poitou-Charentes region, named after the Charente River, the most important river in the department, and also the river beside which the department's two largest towns, Angoulême and Cognac, are sited.-History:Charente is one of the original...
– 1968) was a French archaeologist, one of the excavators of Ugarit
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...
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