Town planning and architecture in the Old Syrian city

The rebuilding that began the new city of the early Old Syrian Period, in the years immediately after 2000 bc, was certainly a great feat of town planning, its size, organization, and probably timing designed by a new political authority with clear ideas and a clear strategy, supported by a population of significant size. The archaeological evidence of Ebla clearly shows that the reconstruction of the great ramparts dates from the beginning of Middle Bronze I, and the historical comparison with Lower Mesopotamia shows that building city walls was normal in the early second millennium bc, and was a founding political act of the political power of a new dynasty, both for its essential defensive function and for its powerful symbolic value.