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Name
The name Ebla was first
mentioned in the tablets of Sargon king of Akkad 24th. Century BC.
Location
Approx. 60 km to the
south of Aleppo - 100 km to the north of Hama - 208 km from the Hotel.
History
An Italian team led by
Paolo Matthiae of the University of Rome began excavating here in
1964. They discovered a
great Bronze Age trading
city of the third and early second millennium B.C., whose links
extended west into Anatolia and east into Mespotamia , while it
dominated the fruitful plains of northwest Syria.
In about 2250 B.C., it
became subsidiary to the Akkadian Empire of Mespotamia and was then
destroyed by the Hittites in 1600 B.C. |
