The site

Ebla was one of the earliest kingdoms in Syria, a city whose remains form a tell about 55 kilometres southwest of Aleppo. Beginning as a small settlement around 3500 BCE, it grew into a trading empire that dominated much of northern and eastern Syria before its destruction in the 23rd century BCE. Its discovery proved the Levant was a center of ancient centralized civilization equal to Egypt and Mesopotamia.

Field notes

civilizations

Sumerian

types

City

built

3,000 BCE

occupied

3,500 BCE — 2,240 BCE

country

Syria