🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell al-Raqai
Early Dynastic (Early Jezireh I–II, c.2900–2600 BCE) · Ninevite 5 → Early Dynastic Khabur
ED Khabur granary town (c.2900–2600 BCE, 8 beehive silos, burnt grain) on Khabur tributary.
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Mounds made of layer upon layer of settlement.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Antalya-Lake District → Early Bronze (Taurus piedmont)
Neolithic to Early Bronze tell (c.6500–2800 BCE, 9 levels) at Taurus foothills / Antalya plain ecotone, excavated 1993–2004 by Refik Duru & Gülsün Umurtak.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic (Uruk) through Middle Bronze Age; EBA I–III urban · Uruk → EBA Euphrates urban → MBA Syro-Anatolian
Euphrates bend urban tell (c.3500–1600 BCE) with EBA II–III walled lower town — Chicago Atatürk Dam salvage type-site.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze (3500–2200 BCE) · Late Chalcolithic North Central Anatolian → EBA extramural elite cemetery
Horoztepe Höyük Tokat Burial Mound is the extramural-cemetery knoll 200 m from Horoztepe settlement on the Kelkit plain 2 km northeast of Erbaa.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Dynastic (Early Jezireh I–II, c.2900–2600 BCE) · Ninevite 5 → Early Dynastic Khabur
ED Khabur granary town (c.2900–2600 BCE, 8 beehive silos, burnt grain) on Khabur tributary.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Hellenistic-Parthian-Roman · Seleucid → Parthian → Roman
Macedonian-Euphrates cliff city (303 BCE–256 CE) called 'Pompeii of the Desert' — garrison of Parthian-Roman frontier buried under a Roman siege embankment that preserved the world's earliest…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Late Epipalaeolithic/Natufian to Pre-Pottery Neolithic B · Natufian-derived Neolithic; Euphrates Levantine
Two-period tell on the Euphrates now submerged under Lake Assad: an Epipalaeolithic hunter-gatherer village (c.13,500–12,800 cal BP) and a Pre-Pottery Neolithic village (c.11,100–9,300 cal BP) famed…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
EBA-MBA-LBA (c.3500-1200 BCE) · Euphrates EBA to Old Babylonian/Mitannian
Tell Atij (Hassek region) — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Hasakah Governorate.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Early Dynastic to Middle Assyrian (c.3000 BCE to 1100 BCE, peak Old Babylonian 1800–1500 BCE) · Assyrian / Mitanni / Old Babylonian (Qattara/Karana)
Major Assyrian mound Tell al-Rimah (ancient Qatara/Karana) on Sinjar plain: 600×400 m tell 30 m high with central high temple mound and Old Babylonian ziggurat stump 40×40 m, 15 m high with mudbrick…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze to Crusader (3000 BCE–1300 CE) · Syrian EBA → Hittite → Neo-Assyrian → Crusader County of Edessa
Tilbeşar Lower Town sprawls below the 15-m fortress mound of Turbessel — Crusader capital of the County of Edessa.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze to Iron (3000 BCE–600 BCE) · EBA Syrian → Hittite → Neo-Hittite Melid → Phrygian
Karahöyük-Elbistan Plains Satellite is a 1.6-ha mound 6 km southwest of Karahöyük-Elbistan citadel on the upper Ceyhan plain (1130 m).
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Eneolithic to Early Bronze (5000–2800 BCE) · Hamangia → Gumelnița → Ezero (EBA)
Durankulak Tell South Settlement is the south lakeside extension on Lake Durankulak — a Hamangia–Gumelnița tell (5000 BCE) with a 1200-grave flat cemetery, the largest Eneolithic necropolis on the…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze Age to Middle Bronze (c.3200–1800 BCE) · EB Anatolian → Assyrian Colony period predecessors
Oldest tin mine (Kestel, 4500 m galleries, EBA) and its processing settlement Göltepe (8 ha) in the Bolkar Taurus, excav...
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Chalcolithic through Byzantine; Hittite–Syro-Hittite peak · Cilician EBA → Hittite Empire (Kizzuwatna/Que) → Syro-Hittite Que
Cilician bend tell with Hittite imperial rock relief of Muwatalli II opposite mound — Chalcolithic to Syro-Hittite harbour town on Ceyhan.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze to Middle Bronze (3000–2000 BCE) · EBA Syrian → Akkadian → Post-Akkadian → MBA Syrian
Tell Selenkahiyeh Southern Terrace is the lower-town terrace south of the four-tell cluster (15 ha) on the Euphrates west bank, salvaged before Lake Assad (Tabqa Dam) rose 20 m.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
EBA-MBA-LBA (c.3500-1200 BCE) · Euphrates EBA to Old Babylonian/Mitannian
Tell al-Rimah (Qattara/Karana) — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Nineveh Governorate.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Neolithic–Chalcolithic (c.5500–3500 BCE) · Halaf → Ubaid–Altınova Chalcolithic
Western Altınova Neolithic–Chalcolithic village (Halaf–Ubaid, wattle-and-daub to mudbrick) under Lake Keban.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Late Chalcolithic to Iron Age II (c.5000–500 BCE; peak Uruk interlude and Median 750–550) · Ubaid-derived Zagros → Uruk colonial (Susa) → Kura-Araxes (Transcaucasian) → Early Transcaucasian → Iron Age Median
Zagros road-stop tell of Uruk traders, Kura-Araxes migrants, Median hall and earliest chemically attested wine.
🇬🇷 Greece · Tell
Late Neolithic-Chalcolithic-EBA (c.6000-2500 BCE) · Balkan Chalcolithic-EBA (Gumelnița-Karanovo–Vinča)
Promachon-Topolniča — buried late tell/village at Central Macedonia.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
MBA → LBA Hittite → Iron → Byzantine (2000 BCE–1400 CE) · Hittite (Kizzuwatna?) → Phrygian → Byzantine
Hittite Zippalanda candidate (LB) — 10 ha lower town, monumental Temple B with tablet, Florentine project.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
PPNB to Nabataean · PPNB Levantine to Nabataean
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B village (7200–6500 BCE) 5 km north of Petra at Siq al-Barid ('Little Petra'), first excavated by Diana Kirkbride.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Chalcolithic – Early Bronze Age (4000–2300 BCE) · Northwest Anatolian Chalcolithic → EBA Troy I contemporary
Demircihöyük East Citadel is the fortified nucleus of the type-site for Northwest Anatolian EBA (Troy I contemporary).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Late Natufian–PPNA (c.12000–10300 BCE) · Natufian-related → PPNA northern Fertile Crescent
Late Natufian–PPNA mound (45 m diameter, 2 m deep deposits) on the Batman River, excavated by Michael Rosenberg 1990s be...
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Early Dynastic to Neo-Assyrian to Parthian · Assyrian (Akkadian dialect)
First capital and holy city of Assyria (c.2600 BCE–614 BCE, 70 ha on Tigris bend) — temple of god Assur (Ashur) whose city and god name are one.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Neolithic–Iron Age (c.5500–600 BCE) · Amuq → Syro-Cilician → Neo-Hittite
Amik fringe tell (Neolithic–Iron Age, 10 m high, basalt-footed EB enclosure) in Kırıkhan plain.
