BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EMAR STUDIES - Tecno-Libro

The ancient Near Eastern city of Emar (also called Imar)+modern Old Meskene (Meskene Qadima) or Tell Meskene+was discovered in the course of rescue excavations conducted during the construction of a dam near Tabqa, in northern Syria. Between 1972 and 1976, excavations were carried out by a French team. Archaeological activities were resumed in 1991, first by the Department of Antiquities in Aleppo, and then from 1996 to 2002 by a joint Syrian-German mission. During the French excavations, more than 1100 clay tablets+or fragments of tablets+were discovered, most of them written in Akkadian andSumerian, covering a wide range of genres.