Mari, Syria

Mari lies in the east of Syria, close to the border with Iraq.

Mari (modern Tell Hariri, Syria) was an ancient Sumerian and Amorite city, located 11 kilometers north-west of the modern town of Abu Kamal on the western bank of the Euphrates river, some 120 km southeast of Deir ez-Zor, Syria. It is thought to have been inhabited since the 5th millennium BC, although it flourished with a series of superimposed palaces that spanned a thousand years, from 2900 BC until 1759 BC, when it was sacked by Hammurabi.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari, Syria
• Bahn, P., ed., 2008, The Great Archaeologists: Anness Publishing, London, 96p.