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Mounds made of layer upon layer of settlement.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Neolithic to Sasanian (5500 BCE–500 CE; peak Proto-Elamite 3100–2600 BCE) · Central Iran Neolithic → Proto-Elamite → Kerman Bronze → Iron → Sasanian
Soghun Plain circular tell with Proto-Elamite chlorite workshop and lapis trade archive.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Early Neolithic to Chalcolithic (Karanovo → Gumelnița–Varna) · Boian → Gumelnița–Karanovo VI–Varna
Fortified Chalcolithic tell (c.4500–4000 BCE, Gumelnița-Karanovo VI–Varna complex, + Early Neolithic base c.6000 BCE) near Hotnitsa waterfall (Kaya Bunar cascade 30 m) on Yantra terrace.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Old Babylonian to Mitanni, c.1900-1400 BCE (Shamshi-Adad, Hammurabi, Mitanni) · Old Babylonian / Mitanni (Karana / Qattara)
Tell al-Rimah (ancient Qattara/Karana) south of Jebel Sinjar: massive tell 40 ha with high ziggurat mound 30 m high (200×200 m base) and lower town.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Tell
Middle Chalcolithic Trypillia B1 (c.4400–4200 BCE); Cucuteni–Trypillia B1 transition megacluster · Cucuteni–Trypillia B1 (Trypillia near Kyiv core) → B2 megasites
Middle Trypillia B1 (c.4400–4200 BCE) palisaded village with 40 burnt houses on Stugna — eponymous Trypillia cluster near Kyiv.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
PPNA to Yarmoukian Pottery Neolithic · PPNA → MPPNB/LPPNB (Zarqa valley) → Yarmoukian
PPNB village (8800–6800 BCE) under Zarqa alluvium — two-storey houses, communal red building and early lentil cultivation, north Levant PPNB seal.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Ubaid to Middle Bronze (5000–1500 BCE; peak Chalcolithic 4500–3500 BCE) · Northern Ubaid → Gawran Chalcolithic → Uruk → Early Dynastic → Mitanni
Northern Ubaid–Uruk reference mound with 18 m Round House and 20-level sequence.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze Age through Iron Age II; MBA Khabur ware, Neo-Assyrian 11th–7th c. BCE · MBA Khabur ware → Middle Assyrian frontier → Neo-Assyrian provincial (Dunnu)
Upper Tigris Assyrian farmstead tell (c.1070–600 BCE) with Dunnu-ša-Uzibi archive — Ilısu salvage text site.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Early Dynastic to Old Babylonian (c. 2700 – 1600 BCE) · Sumerian / Akkadian / Ur III / Isin-Larsa / Old Babylonian
Sargonic linen harbour city – canal harbour 80×50 m silted 500 m east of tell with 1200 tablets.
🇬🇷 Greece · Tell
Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze (3200–1700 BCE) · Troy I–II contemporary → Aegean EBA (Poliochni culture)
Poliochni Lemnos Bronze Age Village is the fortified EBA town on Lemnos — the Aegean's earliest urban nucleus (Poliochni Azzurro–Rosso–Giallo–Verde–Rosa sequence, 3200–1700 BCE) contemporary with…
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Classic Period Hohokam (1150–1450 CE) · Hohokam Classic Period (Marana community)
Marana Hohokam Mound Phoenix Basin is the Los Robles platform mound community on the Santa Cruz River north of Tucson — Fish's Marana community (1150–1450 CE) showing Classic Hohokam platform…
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Ancient village
Early Neolithic to Medieval (Hamangia → Varna → Gumelnița → Thracian → Greek) · Hamangia → Varna → Gumelnița → Thracian coastal
Island tell and lake necropolis spanning 6500 years continuously (c.5100 BCE Early Neolithic to 1000 CE medieval) — the longest stratigraphic column on Black Sea coast.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Pre-Classic Hohokam (500–1100 CE) · Hohokam Pre-Classic (Pioneer–Colonial–Sedentary)
Grewe Site Casa Grande North Ballcourt is the northern ballcourt village of the Grewe Site — the 18-ha Pre-Classic twin settlement north of Casa Grande Great House on the middle Gila north terrace.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Bronze Age veneer → Neo-Assyrian provincial (Iron Age) · Mitanni → Middle/Neo-Assyrian (Ashurnasirpal II–Ashurbanipal)
Assyrian imperial capital Tušhan (883–611 BCE) — 32 ha citadel + lower town with palace, palace ware and Tigris quay, burned at Median fall, Upper Tigris frontier.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
PPNA to Medieval; dominant Neolithic and Medieval citadel · PPNA/PPNB Neolithic → Assyrian → Artuqid Kurdish → Ottoman
Tigris gorge tell (PPNA Neolithic through Medieval) with cliff-edge Neolithic houses — gorge-side multi-period palimpsest partly encircled by Ilısu reservoir after 2020.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic to MBA (Uruk, EBA, MBA) · Late Uruk → Transcaucasian (Kura-Araxes) → MBA Hurrian
Keban salvage tell with Chalcolithic–MBA stratified sequence — Uruk enclave, Transcaucasian (Karaz) and early Mitanni levels before Euphrates dam flooding.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
Hyksos → New Kingdom capital → Third Intermediate (Tanis reuse) · Hyksos → Thutmoside → Ramesside 19th Dynasty → 21st Dynasty Tanis shift
New Kingdom Delta capital (18 km²) of Ramesses II over Avaris — stables for 480 chariot horses, bronze workshops and Pelusiac harbour, buried under Qantir silt.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Eneolithic (5200–3800 BCE) · Boian → Gumelnița (KGK VI)
Sultana-Malu Roşu Southern Extension is the southern terrace-cemetery zone south of the Sultana-Malu Roşu Gumelnița tell on the Mostiștea high terrace.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B to Pottery Neolithic (c.8500–6600 BCE) · PPNB (southern Levantine)
Leja PPNB megasite north lobe (c.8500–6600 BCE, corridor buildings, lime statues) on basalt plateau.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Early Neolithic to Late Chalcolithic (6200–3800 BCE) · Karanovo I–VII → KGK VI (Gumelnița–Karanovo VI)
Karanovo Tell South Sector is the southern lobe of Karanovo tell — the type-site for Balkan Neolithic–Chalcolithic chronology (Karanovo I–VII, 6200–3800 BCE) on the Thracian plain.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Neolithic–Late Chalcolithic (6000–3200 BCE) · Central Anatolian (Cappadocian) Neolithic–Chalcolithic
Bor Plateau Neolithic village with painted floors, earliest copper and plastered skulls.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Middle PPNB to Halaf-Ubaid (8500–5500 BCE) · Middle Euphrates PPNB → Halaf
Middle Euphrates PPNB–Ubaid sequence tell with fingerprint-on-figurine craft study.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Iron Age I–II (1200–700 BCE; Phase II c.1000 BCE, Phase I c.800 BCE) · Central Zagros Iron Age (Luristan) → Median zone
Nurabad Iron Age pillared hall — 12-column prototype of Persian apadana.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Chalcolithic to Byzantine; Phrygian-Roman sanctuary peak · Phrygian → Galatian Tolistobogii → Roman Galatia
Mother-goddess sanctuary-city of Cybele — Phrygian terraces, Hellenistic temple and Roman acropolis buried under Ballıhisar mound on Sangarios.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Ubaid through Early Dynastic II (c.5000–2500 BCE); Ubaid 3–4, Uruk, Jemdat Nasr, ED I–II · Ubaid southern → Uruk–Jemdat Nasr → Early Dynastic Diyala regional
Ubaid–ED Hamrin house mound with tripartite ED I house (House 1) — British Hamrin Dam salvage town (5000–2500 BCE).
