The Archives of Ebla: An Empire Inscribed in Clay (1981)

Format: Hardcover

ISBN: 0385131526

Condition: Good 

The dust jacket has several small tears, there are two ownership stamps, and the book has a slight amount of shelf wear.

Book Description:

When the ancient city of Ebla was unearthed, the most surprising and ultimately the most important find was the well-preserved royal library containing over 15,000 clay tablets and fragments, a discovery seen by many archaeologists to be as important as that of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Here were the records of an entire vanished empire, inscribed in clay. - from the inside flap