BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EMAR STUDIES

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 and Sumerian, covering a wide range of genres.