Mari site excavation, land of the children of Canaan

Carchemish is mentioned in the Ebla texts at the end of the Early Bronze Age, and in the letters from Mari in the Middle Bronze II, when it was a dependency of the kingdom of Yamhad (Aleppo). In the 14th century BC, the Hittite king Suppiluliuma I conquered Mitanni and appointed one of his sons as viceroy at Carchemish and another son as ruler in Aleppo. After the fall of the Hittite empire, the Hittite dynastic line continued at Carchemish for several generations into the Neo-Hittite period. It has produced the largest number of Neo-Hittite sculptures and Hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions from any single site. http://www.bibleplaces.com/carchemish.htm

The ancient city of Mari, located in northern Syria, was a thriving metropolis ca. 2800-1760 BC. From about 2000 BC until its demise in 1760 BC, Mari was the capital of the Amorites... Continue reading http://www.biblearchaeology.org/post/2006/02/06/Great-Discoveries-in-Biblical-Archaeology-The-Mari-Archive.aspx

Amorites and Hittites are the descendant of Ham, the children of Canaan

1 Chronicles 1:13-16
13Canaan was the father of

Sidon his firstborn,^e and of the Hittites, 14Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, 15Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, 16Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites.

http://archaeology.about.com/library/glossary/bldef_mari.htm
Definition: Early dynastic period (3000-2334 BC). In Mari what is now called Syria. it was burned to the ground by the Babylonian king Hammurabi in 1757 BC.

The Mari state was an important trade center between Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean Sea.

The site of Tell Hariri includes an enormous palace belonging to the last of the Mari kings, Zimri Lim, 100 meters on a side. Primary excavations there have been conducted by André Parrot and Jean-Claude Marguernon.
 
Also Known As: Tell Hariri     

http://proteus.brown.edu/mesopotamianarchaeology/994