Ebla (Tell Mardikh)
Bronze Age Syrian city-state whose royal palace archive of some 1,800 cuneiform tablets, burned and thereby preserved when the palace was destroyed, revealed a major Eblaite civilisation previously unknown from written sources.
Dated events and their evidence
- 2,500 BCE mainstream
palace archive tablets begin (Eblaite cuneiform records) source - 2,250 BCE mainstream
city and palace destroyed, archive burned and preserved source - 1975 CE mainstream
tablet archive discovered by Paolo Matthiae's excavation source
Where
35.7980° N, 36.7980° E
Sources
- https://www.britannica.com/place/Ebla
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebla_tablets
- https://worldhistoryedu.com/the-ebla-tablets/
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