Excavations at Ebla uncovered a royal archive of over 1,800 cuneiform tablets dating to around 2500 BCE, among the oldest written archives ever discovered, unearthed by archaeologist Paolo Matthiae's team starting in 1975.
Record no. MRB-2026-007025
Site of One of the World's Oldest Known Royal Archives
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