Eblaite, or Palaeosyrian, is an extinct East Semitic language used during the 3rd millennium BC in Northern Syria. It was named after the ancient city of Ebla, in modern western Syria. Variants of the

Mari was an ancient Semitic city-state in modern-day Syria. Its remains form a tell 11 kilometres north-west of Abu Kamal on the western bank of the Euphrates River, some 120 kilometres southeast of D