Mari, Syria

Mari was an ancient city in Syria situated at the modern locality of Tell Hariri, on the western bank of Euphrates river. It is thought to have been inhabited since the 5th_millennium_BCE, although it flourished from 2900 BCE until 1759 BCE, when it was sacked by Hammurabi. Abraham himself is thought to have passed through Mari on his way from Ur to Harran.

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Mari was discovered in 1933 on the eastern flank of Syria, near the Iraqi border. A Bedouin tribe was digging through a mound for a gravestone that would be used for a recently deceased tribesman, when they came across a headless statue. After the news reached the French authorities currently in control of Syria, the report was investigated and digging on the site was started on December 14, 1933 by archaelogists from the Louvre in Paris. Discoveries came quickly, with the temple of Ishtar being discovered in the next month. Mari was classified by the archaelogists as the "most westerly outpost of Sumerian culture". Since the beginning of excavations, over 25,000 clay tables in Akkadian language written in cuneiform were discovered.

Syria: Syria is an ancient region and modern state, officially known as the Syrian Arab Republic, in the Middle East. It borders Lebanon to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north. The border with Israel is disputed as Israel controls, and claims to...

Euphrates: The Euphrates (the traditional Greek name for the river, which is in Old Persian Ufrat, Aramaic Prâth/Frot, in Arabic Al-Furat الفرات, in Turkish Fırat and in ancient Assyrian language Pu-rat-tu) is the westernmost of the two great rivers that define Me...

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