Much of what is known about the Canaanites come from the thousand of ancient tablets found in the ancient city of Ugarit, modern day Ras Shamra. The Canaanites were Semitic peoples, closely related to the Hebrews. Their language, culture and history closely parallels the ancient Hebrews. Many passages in the Tenach/Old Testament have come to light from these ancient tablets. The land of Canaanites was conquered and inherited by the Hebrews. Each page includes a transliteration of the tablet text and a translation.

Christopher B. Siren
This book is a collection of almost all of the Myth related texts from Ugarit (now Ras Shamrah, Syria. The bulk of the text are direct translations of those works, presented in parallel with transliterations of the Ugaritic. Gibsion gives a brief introduction which recounts the tablets' discovery, summarizes each myth, and presents an interpretation. Footnotes are copious throughout. Also included are more recent transliterated, but untranslated texts, an Ugaritic-English Glossary, a table of Biblical references, and an extensive bibliography. This is the most thorough and most up-to-date telling of the Ugaritic myth cycle I have seen.