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El estudio de la documentación textual y arqueológica ha servido para plantear una serie de reflexiones sobre la localización en el Medio Éufrates sirio de Dur-Yahdun-Lim, la fortaleza que controlaba la frontera noroccidental del reino de Mari a comienzos del II milenio a.C. The study of textual and archaeological documentation has served to raise a series of reflections on the location in the Middle Syrian Euphrates of Dur-Yahdun-Lim, the fortress that controlled the northwestern border of the kingdom of Mari at the beginning of the IInd millennium B.C. Fil: Montero Fenollós, Juan-Luis. Universidade da Coruñaa; España.

La cuarta campaña del “Proyecto Arqueológico Medio Éufra- 191 tes Sirio” se desarrolló a lo largo del mes de julio de 2008 y tuvo como principal objetivo la realización de varios sondeos en Tall Qabr Abu al-‘Atiq, un yacimiento situado en la orilla izquierda del Medio Éufrates sirio, en la entrada de la garganta de Halabiya, en Deir ez-Zor.

Until the beginning of archaeological research in Babylon in 1899 the city was only known in Europe through the information provided by the Old Testament, classical geographers and historians (specially Herodotus), and the stories of many adventurers. In fact many western travellers, who for different reasons visited the Near East, sought the most important Mesopotamian city and its legendary tower, the Tower of Babel, using only the information provided by the Bible and classical sources.