Syria - Mari (Tell Hariri)

Mari is an archaeological site of prime importance. The city dates from around 2900 BC. JC It was par excellence, the royal city-state of the millennia, whose discovery from 1933 and that of Ebla from 1963, upset our knowledge of Syria from the Bronze Age based until then on the little information from the inscriptions of the kings of Summer or Akkad in the present territory of Iraq. Mari was a new town founded in the 18th century by a political authority responsible for the development of the entire region (two canals, one for irrigation and the other for 120 km long navigation). have recently been discovered, with a rather complex hydraulic system, in the Euphrates Valley and the lower Khabur Valley). Expression of a political will the first city of Mari had a strictly circular plan with a diameter of 1900 meters. It was surrounded by a dike and a canal directly connected to the Euphrates, ensuring its water supply while allowing, no doubt, the boats come to stop in the port. These main axes of the road joined the large centers of the center according to a radiating system (radio-concentric plane).