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  "title": "Time for Middle East to choose if it wants to be Bronze Age Ugarit or Phoenicia",
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  "summary": "Three thousand years ago, around 1177 BC, the most connected world of its age came apart within a single lifetime. Egypt, the Hittites, Babylon, Mycenaean Greece, Cyprus and the port city of Ugarit, in what is today northern Syria, had built a remarkable system of trade and diplomacy. Kings wrote to one another as “brothers”. Copper, tin, grain and ideas moved across the eastern Mediterranean.…",
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