Syria: Detail of a statue of the superintendent Ebih-Il in gypsum, lapis lazuli and shell. From the Temple of Ishtar, Mari, c. 2400 BCE. Photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen (CC BY License). Mari (modern Tell Hariri, Syria) was an ancient Sumerian and Amorite city, located 11 km north-west of the modern town of Abu Kamal on the western bank of Euphrates river, some 120 km southeast of Deir ez-Zor, Syria. It is thought to have been inhabited since the 5th millennium BCE, although it flourished with a series of superimposed palaces that span a thousand years, from 2900 BCE until its fall in 1759 BCE.

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