EBLA
Ebla is in Tal Mardikh, 70 KM to the south of Aleppo and 25 KM to the south of Idlib.
The kingdom of Ebla was mentioned in the Acadian texts dating back to the 3rd millennium B.C. Ebla was just a name or rather a mystery because the Archaeologists were not sure as to the location of its capital and whether it was in southern Syria or in the Anadhol until the year 1964 when an Italian Archaeologist group headed by professor Paola Mathew could identify the location of the city of Ebla. After years of hard work, a palace dating back to the 3rd millennium B.C was discovered in it. Then its great library which contains about 20 thousands clay documents organized and documented in such a way which makes this library the first of its kind in the ancient world. The tablets described the daily life of the city in an extremely ancient period of time (dating back to the 22nd century B.C.) and are considered one of the earliest written documents in the 3rd millennium BC. There is no doubt that the translation of these tablets when completed, the new palaces that were discovered lately and the continuation of the excavations, would lead to a new reading of the history of this region.

Other discoveries in the city such as the magnificent items of clay and jewelries are now displayed at the Idlib museum.

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