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Ebla

Ebla was an ancient city in northern Syria that flourished in the third millennium BCE and is famous for its large archive of cuneiform tablets. It fell to the Akkadian Empire during the campaigns of Sargon or Naram-Sin, whose conquests extended Akkadian reach to its greatest extent.

Ebla
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Ebla. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/ebla
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