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Mounds made of layer upon layer of settlement.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Iron II (Late Bronze–U/A Mannaean; peak Hasanlu IVB Iron II c.1050–800 BCE) · Late Bronze Hurrian–Mitanni substrate → Iron Age Mannaean (Indo-Iranian hint) under Urartian pressure → Assyrian fringe
Solduz hill-citadel torched c.800 BCE — 150 massacre-victims around the Gold Bowl.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Tell
Neolithic → EB → MB → LBA Amarna → Iron → Persian → Crusader (7000 BCE–1300 CE) · Levantine (Amorite → Egyptian/Hittite → Phoenician → Crusader)
Akkar plain tell-town (Neolithic–Crusader) — EB rampart, Amarna Irqata, Phoenician and Crusader castle on 30 ha.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Chalcolithic Malwa 1600–1300 BCE · Malwa Chalcolithic Narmada facies — Navdatoli type-site
Navdatoli Narmada Settlement — Malwa Chalcolithic classic site (1600–1300 BCE) on Narmada opposite Maheshwar, excavated 1952–57 by Sankalia–Subbarao (Deccan College–MSU).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A–B to Pottery Neolithic (9300–5500 BCE) · Upper Tigris PPN (Northern Fertile Crescent)
PPNA–PPNB lakeside village at Tigris–Botan confluence documenting crop domestication pathway.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze Age (3200–1950 BCE) · West Anatolian Early Bronze → Hittite scatter
Küllüoba Höyük South Extension exposes the EBA II–III domestic quarter 80 m south of the central burnt compound (Level II).
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Chalcolithic Kayatha → Malwa 1800–1000 BCE · Malwa Chalcolithic Chambal facies
Nagda Chambal Settlement — Malwa–Late Chalcolithic stratified site (1800–1000 BCE) on Chambal River at Nagda, excavated 1955–56 by N.R. Banerjee and K.V. Soundararajan (ASI).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze to Iron (3200 BCE–800 BCE) · EBA → MBA → Hittite → Iron Age (Urartian–Phrygian periphery)
Norsun Tepe Keban Dam Rescue Trench is the southern salvage sector of Norsun Tepe on the southern Altınova plain — one of Hauptmann's Keban rescue tells with an Hittite palace (1600–1350 BCE) burnt…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Early Bronze to Iron Age (3000–600 BCE; Hittite peak 1400–1200 BCE) · Hattian → Hittite → Phrygian
Zippalanda candidate — Hittite storm-god city with palace letters and queen's festival archive.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
EB I–III → MBA → Late Bronze Hittite (3200–1200 BCE) with Iron Age coda · Kura-Araxes → Eastern Anatolian EBA → Hittite-Kizzuwatna fringe
EB–MBA–Hittite tell (Kebanon) — Kura-Araxes to Hittite fortress, Esin Keban salvage key sequence.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Early Dynastic to Old Babylonian (Isin-Larsa contemporary) · Sumerian-Akkadian Eshnunna kingdom
Akkadian-Old Babylonian city-state of Eshnunna (c.3000–1760 BCE) controlling Diyala basin between Sumer and Elam, famous for the Laws of Eshnunna (c.1930 BCE, ~60 laws predating Hammurapi by two…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Early Bronze to Medieval Islamic (c.2500 BCE–1271 CE Mongol sack; peak Old Assyrian karum and Sasanian–Umayyad) · Semitic Harranian → Assyrian → Babylonian (Nabonidus) → Parthian/Roman → Arab Sabian–Islamic
Moon-god Ehulhul city of Carrhae — Nabonidus terrace, Crassus battle plain and beehive-house university.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
MBA to Hellenistic (2000 BCE–100 BCE) · MBA Levantine → Hittite → Neo-Assyrian → Hellenistic Issos
Kinet Höyük North Harbour is the 15-ha northern basin of Kinet Höyük — identified with Issos, where Alexander beat Darius III (333 BCE).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Middle Bronze to Neo-Assyrian · Hurrian → Mitanni → Assyrian
Neo-Assyrian library mound Huzirina with 600 tablets outside the gate – scholarly twin to Nineveh.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Late Neolithic (Halaf–Hassuna), c.6200-5800 BCE (Neolithic, burn layer) · Halaf
Tell Sabi Abyad Balikh Valley (Raqqa): 5 ha tell (mound 10 m high) excavated by Peter Akkermans (Leiden/Amsterdam 1986–): Operation I Burnt Village 6000 BCE — intact burned houses with 3D preserved…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Early Harappan 3300–2600 → Mature Harappan 2600–1900 BCE → Historic Kushan–Gupta · Indus Harappan (northernmost) → Kushan Historic
Akhnur–Manda — northernmost Harappan site (2600–1900 BCE) 28 km NW Jammu on Chenab at Pir Panjal foothills, excavated 1976–82 by J.P. Joshi (ASI Jammu).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Bronze (9500 BCE–2000 BCE) · PPN → Chalcolithic → EBA
Grike Havuz Ritual Platform is the limestone-framed T-pillar pool edge at the karstic Havuz depression in the Karababa basin northeast of Şanlıurfa.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Neolithic to Iron Age II (c.6000–800 BCE; continuum sample) · Iranian Plateau local → Proto-Elamite → Old Elamite (?) → Iron Age Median-affinity
Iran's longest tell with two ziggurats — carbon-painted Sialk ware and Median horse burials.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Late Chalcolithic to Middle Bronze to Byzantine · Western Anatolian (Troy I prelude → Hittite Luwian)
Multi-period mega-tell (c.4000 BCE Late Chalcolithic to 1200 BCE Byzantine, peak EBA–MBA) dominating Çivril Plain on Meander headwaters, excavated 1954–59 by Seton Lloyd & James Mellaart then 2007–…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Halaf to Islamic (5600 BCE–1500 CE) · Halaf → Ubaid → Uruk → EBA Syrian → Hittite → Islamic Harran
Harran Plain Tell A is a 2.8-ha Halaf–Ubaid mound 8 km northeast of Harran city on the Balikh floodplain — one of Wilkinson's mapped Harran plain tells tracking the shift from dispersed Halaf…
🇮🇷 Iran · Pyramid
Chalcolithic to Late Uruk (Susa A) · Susiana Elamite (Proto-Elamite horizon)
Chalcolithic high temple platform at Chogha Mish c.4000–3100 BCE: 27 m mound with proto-urban administration and early sealings, Susiana precursor to Elamite ziggurats.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Chalcolithic through Nabataean; Iron Edomite peak · Feinan Chalcolithic → EBA → Edomite Iron → Nabataean
Feinan copper smelting metropolis (10 ha slag fields, Iron Edomite fortress) — Chalcolithic to Nabataean copper metropolis, biblical Punon with 100k tons 10th c. BCE slag.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Late Neolithic to Eneolithic (5000–3500 BCE) · Boian → Gumelnița (Kodjadermen–Gumelnița–Karanovo VI)
Pietrele Tell Central Platform is the central terrace of the Pietrele mega-tell — a 10-m Gumelnița tell in southern Romania with one of the thickest Eneolithic sequences in the Balkans.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic through Byzantine; Hittite peak · Cilician Plain → Hittite Kizzuwatna frontier → Rough Cilicia Luwian
Göksu terrace tell with Chalcolithic–Byzantine sequence — Hittite pithos warehouses (Ura?), Luwian seals and buried industrial zone on plateau road.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Sorath Harappan 2500–1700 BCE (Rojdi A→B→C) · Sorath Harappan (Possehl) — interior Saurashtra variant
Rojdi — Sorath Harappan farming village (2500–1700 BCE) 15 km SE Gondal, interior Saurashtra, excavated 1982–86 by G.L. Possehl and B. Raval (Penn–Gujarat State Dept).
