Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer (March 6, 1898 – August 25, 1982)[1][2] was a
Frencharcheologist, born in Strasbourg, who led the
Frenchexcavation team that began working on the site of
Ugarit, the present day
Ras Shamra in 1929, leading to the uncovering of the
Ugaritic religious texts.[3] After the Second World War he began excavating the Late Bronze Age site of
Enkomi.[4]
^Palmer, Trevor. (2003). Perilous Planet Earth: Catastrophes and Catastrophism Through the Ages. Cambridge University Press. pp. 120-121.
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