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The Environmental, Economic and Social Geography of Ebla in the 3rd millennium BC: A Connected World

The complete edition of the chancery texts from the palace archive L.2769 and vestibule L.2875 of Ebla (ARET XIII, ARET XVI, ARET

XVIII) forms a substantial corpus of data about the life, the relationships and exchanges between the court of Ebla and the kingdoms

and cities that Ebla either directly controlled or had agreements with on several issues. The present research intends to focus on the

dynamics of such a connected world in Syria in the 3rd millennium BC. In particular, the research aims at presenting the geography

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How difficult? Mountain roads and pathways reaching ancient Melid (Malatya) in south-eastern Anatolia. A reconsideration

The reconstruction of ancient road systems is one of the main topics of historical geography, but the possibility of tracing ancient routes, which formed pathways of cultural, economic and political interchange, often clashes with scanty historical and archaeological sources, especially in those cases in which even the identification of ancient toponyms remains doubtful.

The Malatya plain in the network of interregional relations in the Late Bronze and Iron Ages

The site of Arslantepe, known from the Hittite and Assyrian cuneiform sources as Melid/Mal(i)tiya, has always represented a natural crossroad of the rugged thoroughfares cutting through eastern Anatolia. In political and cultural terms, the settlement has been both an interface and a frontier with different cultural and political entities all through the long history of the site.