See:
- Paolo Matthiae, Ebla and the early urbanization of Syria in: Joan Aruz, Ronald Wallenfels eds., Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus, New Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003, p. 165nn
See:
Large collection of Bronze Age (a/o Ebla, Mari, Ugarit), Iron Age (Arslan Tash), Hellenistic, and Roman finds.
Also Elbe. Town was founded in the early Bronze Age ca. 3500 BC.
Tell Mardikh
Ebla Archaic, Palace of the Third Eblaite Kingdom ca 2000 BC.