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Mounds made of layer upon layer of settlement.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Iron Age (Median/Phrygian to Lydian-Achaemenid destruction 547 BCE) · Median-Phrygian Cappadocian (Pteria identification)
Kerkenes Dağ (Kerkenes / Pteria) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Yozgat Province, Sorgun–Yozgat upland, Kerkenes granite massif, Turkey — Giant 271 ha Iron Age mountain city — largest…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Fortress
Urartian (810–730 BCE) · Urartian (Menua)
Urartian (810–730 BCE) fortress of Urartian (Menua) in Ağrı Province, Patnos Plain (c.800 BCE).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Late Bronze–Iron (1500–800 BCE) · Iron Age Hasanlu LBA
Late Bronze–Iron (1500–800 BCE) tell of Iron Age Hasanlu LBA in West Azerbaijan, Ushnu-Solduz (c.1500 BCE).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Iron Age I–III (1500–600 BCE) · Iron Age Urmia
Iron Age I–III (1500–600 BCE) tell of Iron Age Urmia in West Azerbaijan, Lake Urmia SE (c.1300 BCE).
🇮🇳 India · Tell
Malwa Chalcolithic 1700–1400 BCE → Avanti Early Historic 700–500 BCE · Malwa Chalcolithic → Avanti (Ujjain) Early Historical
Malwa hillock at Nagda Junction — Banerjee/B.B. Lal's Malwa type (round huts, buff ware, 1.6 km NW of station).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic through Neo-Hittite (4000–700 BCE) · Amanos piedmont → Yamhad (Alalakh) → Hittite → Neo-Hittite
Tilmen Höyük (Tilmen Palace Mound West Terrace) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Gaziantep Province, İslahiye District, Amanos foothills, Turkey — Amanos gateway kingdom capital with MBA…
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Late Neolithic through Middle Elamite (c.6800–2000 BCE); Archaic Susiana, Middle Susiana, Uruk, Susa II, Elamite · Susiana (Archaic–Middle) → Uruk–Susa II (Proto-Elamite) → Elamite (Susa III)
Susiana proto-literate tell (c.4400–3100 BCE) with early seals and Burnt Building — Delougaz/Kantor type-site for Susa plain (20 ha).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Ptolemaic to Late Roman (270 BCE – 300 CE) · Greco-Roman Fayum
Central Fayum vineyard port Bakchias 1–2 m buried at Kom el-Atl — Soknobkonneus temple at –1 m and wine press.
🇷🇸 Serbia · Tell
Late Neolithic-Chalcolithic (5700-4500 BCE) · Vinca Culture
Vinca Belo Brdo Deep Sounding East — Western Terrace in Belgrade, Vinca, Serbia is a Late Neolithic-Chalcolithic (5700-4500 BCE) tell attributed to Vinca Culture.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (4500–2000 BCE) · Chalcolithic–EBA
Uruk Buried Eanna Precinct Limestone Temple Foundation in Muthanna, Uruk, Iraq is a Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (4500–2000 BCE) tell attributed to Chalcolithic–EBA.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Hittite Old Kingdom through Empire (1600–1180 BCE) · Hittite (Hatti)
Ortaköy-Sapinuwa (Hittite Administrative Quarter) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Çorum Province, Ortaköy District, Çekerek valley, Turkey — Hittite administrative and military-ritual city…
🇲🇱 Mali · Tell
Iron Age-Classic (250 BCE-900 CE) · Djenne Culture
Djenne-Djeno Mound Urban Quarter North Annex — Northern Annex in Mopti, Djenne, Mali is a Iron Age-Classic (250 BCE-900 CE) tell attributed to Djenne Culture.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (4500–2000 BCE) · Chalcolithic–EBA
Pasargadae Buried Cyrus Garden Canal 3 in Fars, Pasargadae, Iran is a Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (4500–2000 BCE) tell attributed to Chalcolithic–EBA.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Early Bronze III to Iron Age (c.2600–600 BCE; peak OA period) · Assyrian Colony/Old Hittite/Middle Bronze Anatolian
Massive Old Assyrian palace mound at Yeşilova with twin burnt palaces, bulla archives and Purushanda identification.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Nuzi Palace Archive Room 5 in Kirkuk, Yorghan Tepe, Iraq is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇷🇴 Romania · Ancient city
Eneolithic Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5200–3500 BCE) · Precucuteni–Cucuteni (Western Cucuteni-Trypillia)
Cucuteni (Cucuteni-Cetățuia) — eponymous promontory type site of Cucuteni-Trypillia culture discovered 1884 by N. Beldiceanu on Dealul Gosan above Cucuteni village, 30 km west Iași.
🇨🇱 Chile · Ancient village
Formative (500 BCE – 400 CE) · Atacameño (Likan Antai)
Tulor Village in Antofagasta, Chile is a Formative (500 BCE – 400 CE) ancient village attributed to Atacameño (Likan Antai) culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Middle Chalcolithic (Ubaid-related Late Chalcolithic 5500–4000 BCE window) · Central Anatolian Chalcolithic (Aksaray-Melendiz)
Middle Chalcolithic rocky citadel (5200–4800 BCE) — fortified island town on Melendiz obsidian route, Gülçur type-site.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Pre-Classic to Classic Hohokam (700–1300 CE) · Hohokam Pre-Classic (Colonial) → Classic Sedentary
Las Colinas Tempe Hohokam Village is the canal-lattice village at the Agua Fria–Salt River confluence west of Tempe — a Sedentary Colonial-to-Sedentary (700–1300 CE) Hohokam canal village before…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic to Mitanni (4000 BCE–1350 BCE) · Late Chalcolithic → EBA → MBA → Hittite → Mittani
Korucutepe Keban East Mound is the eastern salvage mound 300 m east of Korucutepe main on the Altınova plain (860 m) — twin mound testing the Keban Altınova Hittite–Mittani frontier.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic to Hellenistic (3500 BCE–100 BCE) · Chalcolithic Cilician → Hittite → Neo-Hittite → Hellenistic
Tatarlı Höyük South Acropolis is the southern citadel mound of Tatarlı Höyük on the Cilician plain west of the Ceyhan River — controlling the Kizzuwatna–Assyria (Qode) route.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Late Neolithic Halaf to Halaf-Ubaid Transition (6100–5300 BCE) · Halaf → Northern Ubaid (HUT)
Halaf-Ubaid Transition type-section — 10 m Halaf stratigraphy on Khabur headwater.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Pottery Neolithic to Early Bronze (6000–3000 BCE; peak LCh–Uruk 4500–3100 BCE) · Halaf-Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic north Mesopotamian → Uruk fringe
Upper Tigris concentric Chalcolithic complex with Uruk Bevelled Rim contact horizon.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Chalcolithic to Islamic (5600 BCE–1500 CE; urban peak MBA 2000–1500 BCE) · Zagros Chalcolithic → Early Dynastic Zagros → Old Babylonian peripheral → Kassite → Islamic
45 m Zagros mound with Old Babylonian archive linking Babylon to Iranian intermontane valley.
