The Kingdom of Ebla

Ebla, the mound of Tell Mardikh southwest of Aleppo, changed the map of early civilisation. Its palace archive of roughly 17,000 cuneiform tablets, found in 1975, proved that the Levant hosted a centralised state in the third millennium BCE on a par with Egypt and Mesopotamia. The genomes carry a story of upheaval: over half of the northern Levantine gene pool was replaced between the Late Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age, even as Anatolia and the southern Caucasus stayed continuous. Among these twelve men and women, the paternal lineages E1b1b, J1a and T1a appear side by side. Tell Mardikh was looted and damaged in the Syrian war; these are the people of the kingdom that once stood there.

The genome-wide data behind this entry was published in Genomic History of Neolithic to Bronze Age Anatolia, Northern Levant, and Southern Caucasus.

Every Ancestry Map includes the free Notable Matches lens: your coordinates are compared to every sequenced member of every catalog entry, and the distance to the closest member is reported, a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional space the Distance lens uses. Because these are a small group of real individuals, not a population average, distances naturally run larger than population distances. That is expected, not a poor result. And one thing is never claimed: a small distance means similar ancestry composition, not that the Kingdom of Ebla are your ancestor. See how it looks in the live demo or read about Ancestry Map, the full Global25 report.

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  Who were the Kingdom of Ebla?

  The Kingdom of Ebla (c. 2700-1800 BCE, Ebla (Tell Mardikh), Idlib, Syria) are one of the Iconic discoveries entries in our Notable Matches catalog, represented by 11 sequenced ancient genomes published in the study "Genomic History of Neolithic to Bronze Age Anatolia, Northern Levant, and Southern Caucasus".

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  What does "matching" the Kingdom of Ebla mean?

  Your Global25 coordinates are compared to the entry's sequenced members and the distance to the closest one is reported, a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional reference space the Distance lens uses. A notable entry is one person or one small burial group, not a population average, so distances naturally run larger than population distances.

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  Are they my ancestor?

  No, and no DNA test can show that. A small distance means your genome sits near theirs in a shared reference space: similar ancestry composition, not descent. Ancestrify never claims a notable individual is your ancestor or relative.

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  How do I see my own distance to the Kingdom of Ebla?

  Notable Matches is a free lens on every Ancestry Map, never sold separately. Order Ancestry Map, our Global25 analysis (29.99 EUR), and your report ranks your coordinates against the full catalog, with a portrait, dossier and map for every entry. The public demo shows the lens with example data.

The catalog holds every published entry across three tiers. Browse the full Notable Matches directory. Nearby entries:

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• The Tarim Basin Mummiesc. 2100-1700 BCE

• The Minoansc. 2900-1200 BCE

• The Indus Peripheryc. 3100-1950 BCE

• The Stone City of Shimaoc. 2150-1800 BCE

• The Mokrin Necropolisc. 2100-1800 BCE

• The Cetina Culturec. 2200-1600 BCE

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