Ebla

Ebla was an ancient city located in northern Syria, about 55 km southwest of Aleppo. It was an important city-state in two periods, first in the late third millennium BC, then again between 1800 and 1650 BC.

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Syria - Aleppo - Third millennium BC - 1800 - 1650 BC

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The site is known today as Tell Mardikh, and is famous mainly for archives with more than 20,000 cuneiform tablets, dated from around 2250 BC, in Sumerian and in Eblaite — a previously unknown Semitic language similar to Akkadian.

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Cuneiform tablet - 2250 BC - Eblaite - Semitic - Akkadian

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