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Multi-periodSite Name: Mari.Country: Syria Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Abu Kemal Nearest Village: Tell Hariri
Latitude: 34.549978N Longitude: 40.889160E
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5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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French archaeologists from the Louvre in Paris immediately started excavations, finding the temple of Ishtar very quickly. 25,000 Akkadian clay tablets were also found, although only half the site has been excavated so far. Mari had been inhabited since the 5th millennium BCE. The city flourished since it was strategically located between Sumerian cities of lower Mesopotamia and the cities of the northern Euphrates in what is now Turkey and Syria. Mari was destroyed around 2350 BCE.
The city was revived under an Amorite dynasty and regained some importance around 1900 BCE. The palace of Zimri-Lim, the king of Mari, contained over 300 rooms. Mari was again destroyed around 1759 BCE by Hammurabi after which the city gradually disapeared altogether.
The political and military events of the decades leading up to the destruction of Mari are well described in a collection of clay tabets found on location, which have been translated in a book by Wolgang Heimpel; "Letters To The King of Mari." King Zimri-Lim was an ally of Hamurabi and helped in many regional conflicts until the later double crossed him in what must have been a surprise attack.
The inhabitants of Mari worshiped the Sumerians gods and goddesses with Dagan, the god of storms, Ishtar, the goddess of fertility, and Shamash, the Sun god having larger temples.
Note: Ancient Mesopotamian city in need of rescue
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