Syria - Ebla (Tell Mardikh)

it is one of the largest archaeological sites of the Bronze Age in Western Syria where excavations since 1965 have contributed to improving our knowledge of the earliest roots of urban civilization in the lll millennium BC. J.C. west of the Euphrates and its development until the time of the amorphous kingdoms of the first half of the second millennium. Thanks to Ebla it has been possible to check the succession of establishments since the middle of the 3rd millennium BC. J.C. until the imperial Roman era when the site was abandoned. Remarkable results were obtained especially concerning the great city of the first centuries of the 11th millennium. Large, raw brick walls, sometimes with a stone foundation in very good condition with an elevation of more than seven meters, were unearthed and recognized as belonging to the eastern facade of the court of hearings of the royal palace of the great city of Proto-Syrian era destroyed around 2300 BC J.C. Much of the palace of the twenty-first century BC. J.C. was revealed with the court of the hearings, the sector probably the most original of all the palace as well as the rooms where the archives were kept. More than fifteen thousand five hundred inventory numbers of cuneiform tablets were collected.