🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Tell Munbaqa
Early–Late Bronze Age (c.2400–1000 BCE) · Syrian Bronze Age (Ekalte)
Euphrates walled city 20 ha (2.5 km double wall, Ekalte Old Babylonian tablets) near Tabqa Lake.
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🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Early–Late Bronze Age (c.2400–1000 BCE) · Syrian Bronze Age (Ekalte)
Euphrates walled city 20 ha (2.5 km double wall, Ekalte Old Babylonian tablets) near Tabqa Lake.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze Age to Hellenistic (c.3000–300 BCE) · Syrian EBA → Aramaean → Neo-Hittite fringe
Ghāb Orontes fortress tell 12 ha (EB glacis, Iron Age Aramaean town Tunip/Qarqar) in Ghāb swamp.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Jazira I–V (3100–2100 BCE) · Early Jazira Hurrian precursor → Akkadian
EJ II Nabada planned insula 2420 BCE — tablet sealings & kiln quarter (Lebeau).
🇸🇾 Syria · Temple complex
Late Bronze – Iron Age II (Syro-Hittite) · Hittite – Syro-Hittite (Aramaean)
Syro-Hittite temple (1300–740 BCE) with 1-m footprints and sphinxes — Solomon's Temple parallel, destroyed 2018.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
EB IV to Persian (3000 BCE–330 BCE; peak LBA 1500–1200 BCE) · EB Amorite → Middle Bronze Amorite → Hittite Egyptian contested → Neo-Assyrian → Persian
Qadesh outer town 1274 BCE — Hittite–Egyptian battle plain south tell.
🇸🇾 Syria · Archaeological wonder
3rd millennium BCE to present (Yamhad Bronze Age peak; current fortress 12th–13th c CE) · Amorite (Yamhad) / Hittite / Neo-Hittite / Hellenistic / Ayyubid / Mamluk / Ottoman
One of the oldest continuously fortified mounds in the world, Aleppo citadel occupies a 45 m-high tell (Yamhad kingdom capital c.1800 BCE).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
EBA I to Old Syrian (3500–1600 BCE; peak Eblaite Palace G 2400 BCE) · EBA Eblaite → Eblaite Syrian → Old Syrian (Yamhad)
Eblaite capital lower town 2400 BCE — 17k tablets south quarter & Temple of Rock.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Seleucid to Byzantine Crusader · Seleucid → Roman → Byzantine
Seleucid garrison city and military elephant depot (Seleucus' 500 Indian elephants), later Roman Apamea with the grandest colonnaded cardo in the East — 1,850 m long, 37 m wide, 1,200 columns with…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Late Bronze to Neo-Assyrian (c.1600–600 BCE) · Mitanni Hurrian → Middle Assyrian
Stratified 7-m Khabur village documenting Mitanni–Assyrian agrarian collapse and recovery; Pfälzner exposed Mitanni granary with barley, then Middle Assyrian canal-side settlement with large storage…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Late Bronze to Neo-Assyrian (c.1400–600 BCE; provincial capital 900–600) · Mittani → Middle Assyrian → Neo-Assyrian provincial
Dur-Katlimmu on lower Khabur is largest Assyrian provincial centre (110 ha: 25-ha citadel + 85-ha walled lower town), Kühne excavations 1978–. Neo-Assyrian capi...
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Middle Bronze to neo-Assyrian (c.2000 BCE–700 BCE), peak Middle Assyrian · Mitanni Washukanni? / Sikkan Assyrian
Spring-resurgent mound with 1.5-m deep Middle Assyrian level and 9th-c. bilingual Old Aramaic–Old Assyrian Hadad statue inscription (stated first to transcribe Akkadian into Aramaic).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Middle Bronze to Neo-Assyrian (c.2000–600 BCE; bilingual 850 BCE) · Old Babylonian → Mittani (Washukanni?) → Middle Assyrian → Aramaean → Neo-Assyrian
Tell Fecheriye (ancient Sikan/Sikani) is 90-ha dual-mound south of Halaf on Khabur source, famed for 1979 Hadad-yithʻi bilingual statue — life-size basalt with...
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Late Chalcolithic to Iron Age (3500–600 BCE; peak MBA–Neo-Assyrian) · Uruk → EBA → Middle Assyrian → Neo-Assyrian Aramean (Bit-Adini)
Burmarina Neo-Assyrian tablet town 725 BCE — MBA to cremation cemetery.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Early Bronze to Late Bronze (Amorite Hurrian) · Amorite then Hurrian-Mitanni Egyptian orbit
Mighty Middle Bronze (c.2800–1340 BCE) kingdom city of Qatna controlling eastern Homs basin, with 1 km-square royal palace (largest Bronze Age palace in Syria, 10,000 m²) and intact royal hypogeum…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
EBA to Late Roman (3100 BCE–400 CE; peak EBA 2700 BCE) · EBA Jazira (Khabur zone) → Amorite → Roman
EBA rounded-town south annex 2700 BCE — palace F quarter and Roman overlay.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Iron Age
Posthole Structure Alignment North in Euphrates Valley, Syria is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) ancient city attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze III – Iron II (to Late Roman) · Amorite/Aramaean – Luwian
Idlib plain fortified tell (2500–550 BCE) with 30-season Japanese excavation sequence.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Deltaic Buried Harbour West in Euphrates Valley, Syria is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Early Bronze to Old Assyrian · Akkadian → Amorite Assyrian
Akkadian provincial capital turned Assyrian royal city Shubat-Enlil (Shamshi-Adad I c.1813–1791 BCE), with 90 ha walled city, Akkadian palace on Acropolis, and the Weiss 4.2ka climate event…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Halaf to Old Babylonian (6000–1600 BCE) · Halaf then Amorite Ashnakkum
Chagar Bazar — Khabur Ancient Town Extension in Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria is a Halaf to Old Babylonian (6000–1600 BCE) tell attributed to Halaf then Amorite Ashnakkum.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Akkadian to Old Babylonian (2600–1728 BCE) · Akkadian/Assyrian
Tell Leilan — Shubat-Enlil Eastern Palace in Hasakah Governorate, Khabur Triangle, Syria is a Akkadian to Old Babylonian (2600–1728 BCE) tell attributed to Akkadian/Assyrian 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.
🇸🇾 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 · Ancient city
Early Bronze IV (2400–2000 BCE) · Inner Syria EBA
Al-Rawda — Steppe Kite Walled Town in Hama Governorate, Syrian desert steppe, Syria is a Early Bronze IV (2400–2000 BCE) ancient city attributed to Inner Syria EBA culture.
