Ebla (Sumerian: ???????? eb₂-la, Arabic: إبلا, modern: تل مرديخ, Tell Mardikh) was one of the earliest kingdoms in Syria.Its remains constitute a tell located about 55 km (34 mi) southwest of Aleppo near the village of Mardikh.Ebla was an important center throughout the 3rd millennium BC and in the first half of the 2nd millennium BC. Its discovery proved the Levant was a center ...

Akkadian (/ ə ˈ k eɪ d i ən /, Akkadian: ???????????????? akkadû) is an East Semitic language, now extinct, that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia (Akkad, Assyria, Isin, Larsa and Babylonia) from the third millennium BC until its gradual replacement by Akkadian-influenced Old Aramaic among Mesopotamians by the 8th century BC.. It is the earliest documented Semitic language.