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With support from UNESCO the Italians and Syrians have been able to conserve the more important sections of ancient Ebla. No area was more important than the area shown in this photograph as it was here that the archaeologists unearthed the royal palace, and more importantly, the royal archive. The archive in which over 8,000 caly tablets were recovered was in the rooms that have had a new, white layer of plaster applied to their walls. These tablets shed light on Ebla's commercial and diplomatic relations with centres such as Mari that lies on the Euphrates River further to the east. In the distance of this photograph, are the city walls of Ebla, although erosion has smoothed them to look like a natural hill.
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