Lost Kingdom Of Mari – Once Important Commercial And Political Center Of Mesopotamia
AncientPages.com | January 25, 2018
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The history of Mari is rather obscure, but it is known that it was an ancient kingdom and an important political and commercial center on the western bank of the Euphrates in modern Syria close to the Iraqi frontier.
Mari became prosperous due to its beneficial geographical location on the northern trading route between Syria and Mesopotamia, in close vicinity of Mediterranean Sea, Assyrian area to the north-east and Babylonia to the south-east.
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