Mari
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Definition: Early dynastic period (3000-2334 BC) state (and the site) in what is now Syria, burned to the ground by the Babylonian king Hammurabi in 1757 BC. The Mari state was an important trade center between Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean Sea. The site of Tell Hariri includes an enormous palace belonging to the last of the Mari kings, Zimri Lim, 100 meters on a side. Primary excavations there have been conducted by André Parrot and Jean-Claude Marguernon.
Also Known As: Tell Hariri
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Archaeology of Syria
Links and resources from your About guide.
Mesopotamia Archaeology
Archaeological sites and studies of the ancient civilization of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers of the middle east.
Ancient Syria
The first recorded mention of Greater Syria is in Egyptian annals detailing expeditions to the Syrian coastland to log the cedar, pine, and cypress of the Ammanus and Lebanon mountain ranges in the fourth millennium; from your guide to Ancient History, N.S. Gill.
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