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Mounds made of layer upon layer of settlement.
🇮🇶 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.
🇹🇷 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 · Tell
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Northern Eridu Citadel Central — Eridu (53-38) at Eridu, Iraq is a Medieval (regional) tell of the Medieval tradition, built c. 200 CE for citadel and associated settlement.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
EBA-MBA-LBA (c.3500-1200 BCE) · Euphrates EBA to Old Babylonian/Mitannian
Tell Munbaqa (Ekalte) — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Raqqa Governorate.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Early Harappan Padri 3300–2600 → Sorath Mature 2600–1900 → Late Harappan 1900–1800 BCE · Sorath Harappan (Possehl) coastal variant — Early to Late Harappan
Padri — Sorath Harappan village (3300–1800 BCE) on Gulf of Khambhat at Talaja, Saurashtra, excavated 1990–93 by V.S. Shinde (Deccan College).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
EBA-MBA-LBA (c.3500-1200 BCE) · Euphrates EBA to Old Babylonian/Mitannian
Tell Biasi — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Raqqa Governorate.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
EBA-MBA-LBA (c.3500-1200 BCE) · Euphrates EBA to Old Babylonian/Mitannian
Tell Fray — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Raqqa Governorate.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
EBA-MBA-LBA (c.3500-1200 BCE) · Euphrates EBA to Old Babylonian/Mitannian
Tell al-'Abr — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Aleppo Governorate.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Early Dynastic to Old Babylonian (c.2900–1700 BCE; peak Lagash–Umma border war 2500–2350 BCE) · Sumerian (Umma ensi dynasty) → Akkadian → Ur III → Isin-Larsa
Lagash's blood-enemy with Stele-of-Vultures war archive and 20,000 Ur III tablets of a date-palm oligarchy.
🇲🇱 Mali · Tell
Djenné-Djeno phase (250 BCE – 1400 CE; West Mound 300–900 CE) · Djenné-Djeno (Inland Niger Delta urbanism)
Western extension of Djenné-Djeno city cluster (2 km from central tell) with 450×400 m mound, floodplain ditch, iron workshops and terracotta of Inland Niger urbanism 800 years pre...
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Halaf–Ubaid (c.6000–3800 BCE) · Halaf → Ubaid (Amuq A–D)
South Amik Halaf–Ubaid village (c.6000–3800 BCE, geometric painted ware, stamp seals) on former lakebed.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze I–II (c.3100–2600 BCE) with later BA · Ninevite 5 → Akkadian → Khabur ware
Ninevite 5 period settlement (250 × 200 m, 10 m high) on the Beşiri plain, Ilısu salvage zone, excavated by Barbara Helw...
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient village
Late Neolithic (4300–3800 BCE) · Sheri Khan Tarakai
Sheri Khan Tarakai — Bannu in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Bannu basin, Pakistan is a Late Neolithic (4300–3800 BCE) ancient village attributed to Sheri Khan Tarakai culture.
🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Temple complex
Early Medieval (5th–8th c.) · Gupta-Pala
Vasu Vihara — Mahasthangarh in Bogra District, Mahasthangarh hinterland, Bangladesh is a Early Medieval (5th–8th c.) temple complex attributed to Gupta-Pala culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Chalcolithic (c.5500–4800 BCE) · Ubaid-related Central Anatolian Chalcolithic
Middle Chalcolithic tell (200 m diameter, 8 m high) on the Konya Plain’s southern apron, excavated by David French. Sequ...
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Bronze to Iron Age (c.3000 BCE–600 BCE; peak Hasanlu IV 1100–800 BCE) · Giyan → Hasanlu IV (Mannaean/Urartian sphere) → Urartian
Hasanlu is the great Iron Age walled city south of Lake Urmia — Hasanlu IV (1100–800 BCE) citadel with columned halls, ivory workshop, and violent destruction b...
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze–Iron (2600–600 BCE) · Hurrian – Aramaean (Harran)
Early Bronze–Iron (2600–600 BCE) Hurrian – Aramaean (Harran) tell at Şanlıurfa Province, Harran Plain – 22-m tell controlling harran plain, cargo from carchemish (dims 22 m high, 1 km² lower town, EB palace).
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient village
Protoneolithic (10500–9500 BCE) · Zarzian Epipalaeolithic–PPN
Protoneolithic (10500–9500 BCE) Zarzian Epipalaeolithic–PPN ancient village at Erbil Governorate, Greater Zab tributary – open-air forager base preceding first villages (dims Scatter 3000 m² with huts and ground stone).
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient city
Early Harappan (4000–3100 BCE) · Kot Diji
Rehman Dheri — Early Harappan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gomal plain, Pakistan is a Early Harappan (4000–3100 BCE) ancient city attributed to Kot Diji culture.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Neolithic to Abbasid (6000 BCE–present; Assyrian capital 705–612 BCE) · Assyrian / Babylonian / Persian / Hellenistic / Parthian
Great Assyrian capital under Sennacherib (705–681 BCE) extended by Ashurbanipal (668–630 BCE), Nineveh at fall (612 BCE) was world's largest city (~15 km walls, 100,000 inhabitants).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic to Islamic (peak MBA–Hittite) · Halaf-Ubaid → Kura-Araxes → Yamhad → Hittite → Neo-Hittite
Major Euphrates terrace tell (220 × 180 m, 18 m high) on the Sajur tributary near Nizip, rescue-excavated 1990s ahead of...
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age (c.4000–2700 BCE) · Seimareh valley Chalcolithic → Transcaucasian Early Bronze
Seimareh cemetery mound 15 ha (140 EB cist graves, bronze daggers, c.4–3 ka) in Seimareh valley.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Ancestral Puebloan (c.600-1300 CE) · Anasazi/Puebloan (Basketmaker to Pueblo III)
Kin Biniola Chaco Outlier — buried ancestral tell/village at New Mexico.
