by Devac

The ~ 4–5-story-tall palace complex (~ 52 m × ~ 27 m), with massive superstructures made of sun-dried mudbricks, extended ~ 11–15 m above the top of the enclosing rampart. The palace excavations reveal that most of the first-floor walls and all of the upper stories of the MB II palace are missing, with no evidence of collapsed walls across the entire upper tall. There are almost no whole mudbricks visible anywhere, and instead, small fragments of bricks are randomly strewn around as infill within the churned-up, 1.5-m-thick destruction matrix. It appears that most bricks were pulverized and blown off the site to the northeast