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Mounds made of layer upon layer of settlement.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
EBA-Iron Age (c.3000-700 BCE) · Amuq/Syro-Hittite (Amuq A-J to Iron Age Patina)
Coba Höyük (Sakçagözü) — buried eba-iron tell/village at Gaziantep Province.
🇸🇳 Senegal · Buried city
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Classical
Mapungubwe Hill Annex in Burr, Senegal is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) buried city attributed to Classical culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Tell
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Bronze Age
Granary Pit Group South in Coastal Peru, Peru is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) tell attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇱🇾 Libya · Buried city
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Medieval
Harlaa Urban Mound East in Fezzan, Libya is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) buried city attributed to Medieval culture.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Classical
Shrine Niche North in Thracian Plain, Bulgaria is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) tell attributed to Classical culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Bronze Age (6000–1180 BCE palace 1400 BCE) · Canaanite-Hurrian
Ugarit — Ras Shamra Northern Palace in Latakia Governorate, Mediterranean, Syria is a Bronze Age (6000–1180 BCE palace 1400 BCE) ancient city attributed to Canaanite-Hurrian culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Period Classical · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Quarry Gallery Mideast 81 — Israel Region 9 in Israel Region 9, Israel is a Iron Age tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Jezirah I–III (c.3000–2200 BCE) · Ninevite-5 → Early Dynastic Jezirah
30-ha EB town with nine-phase Ninevite-5 through ED III defensive wall, gate with corbel vault, “Animal House” kitchen with fauna scatters, eye-idol temple and Soviet-Polish plan 7 stratified ED…
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Early Dynastic III, c.2600–2350 BCE · Kish civilization / Nagar
Acropolis temple staircase at Tell Beydar (ancient Nabada, c.2600–2350 BCE, Early Dynastic).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze IVA (2600–2300 BCE) archive · Early Syrian Eblaite
Mardikh excavated by Matthiae 1964–, 20,000 tablet fragments, bilingual Sumerian-Eblaite vocabularies and palace colonnade.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
EBA-Iron Age (c.3000-700 BCE) · Amuq/Syro-Hittite (Amuq A-J to Iron Age Patina)
İmamoğlu Höyük — buried eba-iron tell/village at Gaziantep Province.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Ubaid to Mitanni (6500–1200 BCE) · Uruk/Mitanni
Tell Brak — Nagar Outer City Eye Temple in Hasakah Governorate, Khabur plain, Syria is a Ubaid to Mitanni (6500–1200 BCE) tell attributed to Uruk/Mitanni culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
MB to Iron Age (c.2000–600 BCE; peak Philistine Timnah c.1200–600) · Canaanite → Philistine (Timnah) → Judah
Tel Batash is biblical Timnah in Sorek Valley — Samson's Timnah (Judges 14) and Philistine border town between Ekron and Gezer. Mazar/Kelm 1977–89 revealed MB g...
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Middle Bronze to Iron (1900–500 BCE) · Canaanite/ Sea Peoples
Tell Kazel — Ancient Sumur in Tartus Governorate, Akkar plain, Syria is a Middle Bronze to Iron (1900–500 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite/ Sea Peoples culture.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Tell
Middle Bronze to Iron (1900–1200 BCE) · Egyptian-Hittite
Kamid el-Loz — Beqaa Palace in Beqaa Governorate, Kumidi palace, Lebanon is a Middle Bronze to Iron (1900–1200 BCE) tell attributed to Egyptian-Hittite culture.
🇮🇷 Iran · Pyramid
Neolithic to Early Bronze Age, c.7000–800 BCE (massif c.3200 BCE) · Halaf / Ubaid / Uruk / Kura-Araxes
Central high mound at Chogha Gavaneh (7th–6th millennium BCE Neolithic to Bronze Age high platform, 15 m high, 80 m diameter).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Chalcolithic (6000–5200 BCE) · Çatalhöyük-Chalcolithic
Çatalhöyük West Mound — Chalcolithic in Konya Plain, Çumra, Turkey is a Chalcolithic (6000–5200 BCE) tell attributed to Çatalhöyük-Chalcolithic culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
EBA-Iron Age (c.3000-700 BCE) · Amuq/Syro-Hittite (Amuq A-J to Iron Age Patina)
Tell Kurdu — buried eba-iron tell/village at Hatay Province.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Chalcolithic to Ottoman (c.5000 BCE–1500 CE; Kurgan elite 2600–2300 BCE) · Chalcolithic → Early Bronze Kurgan → Hittite → Urartian → Byzantine
Altınova mound with Early Bronze Maikop-affine kurgan elite tombs (2600 BCE) at Elazığ.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Chalcolithic to Medieval (c.4500 BCE–1453 CE; Kura-Araxes from 3500 BCE) · Chalcolithic → Kura-Araxes (Karaz) → Early Transcaucasian → Urartian → Medieval
Transcaucasian gateway mound (4500 BCE–1453 CE) with 6 ka Kura-Araxes to Seljuk sequence at Erzurum.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze III–IV (c.2600–2100 BCE) · Early Jezirah III Ebla-contact
9-m step-terrace temple at Tell Hazna overlooking Khabur–Sinjar pass, stair and altar with Ebla-style cylinder seals, Soviet-Joint campaign 1988–2010 (Munchaev) exposing three ritual phases.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Late Bronze Age to Persian (1500–332 BCE) · Canaanite / Phoenician / Persian
Tel Mevorakh — Coastal Plain in Sharon Plain, Israel is a Late Bronze Age to Persian (1500–332 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite / Phoenician / Persian.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Mittani to Assyrian (1500–600 BCE) · Mittani then Assyrian provincial
Tell Khasham — Khabur Frontier Fort in Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria is a Mittani to Assyrian (1500–600 BCE) tell attributed to Mittani then Assyrian provincial.
🇮🇳 India · Tell
Chalcolithic to Early Historic (3000 BCE–500 BCE) · Ahar-Banas
Balathal — Banas Valley Settlement in Rajasthan, India is a Chalcolithic to Early Historic (3000 BCE–500 BCE) tell attributed to Ahar-Banas.
