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6-22-2009 10:56 AM
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Every day I realise, with deep humility, how little I know.
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/18356ee0-f648-482a-addc-a69c41ed76dd/6E556FD3-D80B-4CDE-9840-B25941BA1A88/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://atlastours.net/syria/mari.html" href="http://atlastours.net/syria/mari.html" style="font-size: 11px;">atlastours.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://atlastours.net/syria/mari.html"><H1>Mari, Syria</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://atlastours.net/syria/mari.html"><P>Mari was an ancient kingdom on the western bank of the Euphrates which flourished in the 3rd millennium BC as an important hub between the main irrigation-based states of the Land of the Two Rivers (Tigris and Euphrates) and the drier plains of Northern Syria and the Upper Euphrates/Khabur system, occupied by Akkadians, Sumerians, Amarite, and destroyed in about 1760 BC by King Hammorabi. It was the capital of the 10th dynasty after the flood.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://atlastours.net/syria/mari.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/atlastours.net/img/72F7B44A-652A-4174-A867-F7E09D1CFFB3" alt="Iku Shamagan, the king of Mari in 18th century BC" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://atlastours.net/syria/mari.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/atlastours.net/img/DC279CB7-E428-4C57-A70C-E12C9F29294B" alt="A statue of fountain goddess with flowing vase" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://atlastours.net/syria/mari.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/atlastours.net/img/918C1C5E-3B89-409C-9BC1-C9CF9A3A1477" alt="Statue of Shalim, made of alabaster, Temple of Nini-Zaza, Mari" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://atlastours.net/syria/mari.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/atlastours.net/img/EAE6DEED-790E-47F3-A15B-E89851C6E9FD" alt="Statue of Orant, made of alabaster, Temple of Nini-Zaza, Mari" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://atlastours.net/syria/mari.html"><P>This palace is the most impressive and best preserved of the Early Bronze Age palaces unearthed in the region. It is one of the most extensive excavated in the Middle East and was constructed across several centuries, though it misleadingly bears the name of the last ruler, Zimri-Lim. 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