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Ebla
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Eb·la  (bl)
An ancient city of southwest Asia near the site of present-day Aleppo, Syria. The cuneiform Ebla Tablets, discovered from 1974 to 1975, describe a thriving third-millennium b.c. civilization centered around the city.


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In 1975, beneath the ancient earthen mound known as Tell Mardikh, an Italian archeological team discovered the archives of Ebla, a Sumerian city located today in Northern Syria.
He studied under Dr Paolo Matthiae, the excavator of the 3rd millennium BC site of Ebla at Tell Mardikh, Syria, and with Dr William Dever of the University of Arizona at Tucson.
 
 
 
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