A powerful Semitic city-state on the middle Euphrates that served as a major Bronze Age trade hub between Mesopotamia and the Levant, whose royal archive of ~20,000 cuneiform tablets is a primary source for early 2nd-millennium Near Eastern history.
Destroyed by Hammurabi of Babylon c. 1759 BCE following a rebellion; the great palace and city were burned, and Mari never recovered its former prominence as a major Euphrates trading city.
The atlas holds 4 border frames for Mari — the shape you scrub through changes in 2900 BC · 2112 BC · 2003 BC · 1810 BC.
Uses the Mari archive extensively to reconstruct early 2nd-millennium Mesopotamian political history.
Era/regional survey covering Mari's role as a Euphrates trade hub and the significance of its royal cuneiform archive.
Era/regional study of Mesopotamian society and its sources, drawing on the kind of archival material the Mari tablets exemplify.