ABSTRACT
The systematic excavations of Royal Palace G at Ebla were developed during the years 1974-1990, with a concentration of workmen in this area during 1975 and 1976, when the Royal Archives in the eastern sector of the Court of Audience were found. Probably Royal Palace G originally stretched over a large part of the Acropolis, possibly with separate units, and in some peripheral regions of a primarily architectural and functional importance; it also stretched at the foot of the Acropolis. The texts of the Royal Archives bear evidence to the fact that the oldest kings of the Ancestor's list were buried at Bina, probably near the modern town of Idlib, and the last ten kings in the ancient site of Darib, almost certainly the same as modern Atareb, where a very damaged limestone head was found in the past, probably dating back to the Archives age.
