Tell Sukas (Sukas / Shuksi) — Phoenician Harbour Ridge is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Latakia Governorate, Jableh District, Mediterranean coast, Syria — Northern Phoenician harbour tell —…

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Bi'a (Tuttul) — Zimri-Lim Palace Quarter

Late Chalcolithic through Mitanni (3500–1300 BCE) · Uruk → EBA Tuttul (Dagan) → Old Babylonian → Mitanni

Tell Bi'a (Tuttul) — Zimri-Lim Palace Quarter is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Raqqa Governorate, Balikh-Euphrates confluence, Raqqa District, Syria — Sacred city of Dagan — Tuttul —…

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Leilan Buried Acropolis Temple Platform

Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (4500–2000 BCE) · Chalcolithic–EBA

Tell Leilan Buried Acropolis Temple Platform in Al-Hasakah, Tell Leilan, Syria is a Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (4500–2000 BCE) tell attributed to Chalcolithic–EBA.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Sabi Abyad Buried Burnt Village Ovens

Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (4500–2000 BCE) · Chalcolithic–EBA

Tell Sabi Abyad Buried Burnt Village Ovens in Ar-Raqqa, Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria is a Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (4500–2000 BCE) tell attributed to Chalcolithic–EBA.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Mari Buried High Terrace Mudbrick Massif

Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (4500–2000 BCE) · Chalcolithic–EBA

Mari Buried High Terrace Mudbrick Massif in Deir ez-Zor, Mari, Syria is a Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (4500–2000 BCE) tell attributed to Chalcolithic–EBA.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Qarqur

Neolithic → EB → MBA Qarqur → Iron → Classical (8000 BCE–1400 CE) · Neolithic → EB → MBA Qarqur → Iron → Classical (8000 BCE–1400 CE)

Tell Qarqur in Hama Governorate, Orontes, Ghab Valley, Syria is a Neolithic → EB → MBA Qarqur → Iron → Classical (8000 BCE–1400 CE) settlement attributed to Neolithic → EB → MBA Qarqur → Iron →…

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Ugarit Buried House of Yabninu Tablet Archive

Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (4500–2000 BCE) · Chalcolithic–EBA

Ugarit Buried House of Yabninu Tablet Archive in Latakia, Ugarit, Syria is a Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (4500–2000 BCE) tell attributed to Chalcolithic–EBA.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Hadidi Buried Late Bronze Tablet House

Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (4500–2000 BCE) · Chalcolithic–EBA

Tell Hadidi Buried Late Bronze Tablet House in Raqqa, Tell Hadidi, Syria is a Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (4500–2000 BCE) tell attributed to Chalcolithic–EBA.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Jebel Aruda Buried Uruk Enclave House C

Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (4500–2000 BCE) · Chalcolithic–EBA

Jebel Aruda Buried Uruk Enclave House C in Raqqa, Jebel Aruda, Syria is a Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (4500–2000 BCE) tell attributed to Chalcolithic–EBA.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Tweini (Gibala)

EB → MBA → LBA Gibala (Ugarit port) → Iron · Levantine coastal → Ugaritic (Gibala) → Iron Phoenician

Tell Tweini (Gibala) in Latakia Governorate, Jableh Plain, near coast, Syria is a EB → MBA → LBA Gibala (Ugarit port) → Iron settlement attributed to Levantine coastal → Ugaritic (Gibala) → Iron…

🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid

Tell Leilan — Shekhna Mound Khabur

Early Bronze to Old Babylonian (2600–1726 BCE) · North Mesopotamian (Akkadian provincial, Old Assyrian)

Tell Leilan — Shekhna Mound Khabur in Al-Hasakah Governorate, Khabur Triangle (ancient Shekhna/Shubat-Enlil), Syria is a Early Bronze to Old Babylonian (2600–1726 BCE) pyramid/mound site attributed…

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Banat White Monument South

Early Bronze (3100–2300 BCE) · EB Syrian (Early Dynastic contemporary) → Mortuary complex

Tell Banat White Monument South is the southern suburb below the White Monument — a 20-m-high stepped earthen mortuary mound (100 m diam) south of Tell Banat cluster on the Euphrates.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Mureybet (Tell Mureybit)

Natufian to PPNB (12,200–8000 BCE; Phase IA–IVB) · Natufian → Khiamian (Mureybatian) → PPNA → PPNB

Submerged Euphrates tell bridging Natufian to PPNB with early domestic einkorn and lion figurine.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Arbid Southern Ridge

Halaf to Mitanni (6000 BCE–1300 BCE) · Halaf → Ubaid → Uruk → Ninevite V → Akkadian → Mittani

Tell Arbid Southern Ridge is the 14.2-ha southern ridge extension of Tell Arbid on the Wadi Jaghjagh between the Khabur and Tigris headwaters.

🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city

Tell Fekheriye (Washukanni?)

Early Bronze to Mitanni to Neo-Assyrian (Jezirah) · Hurrian Mitanni → Aramaean Sikani → Assyrian

Spring-mound town Sikani (Mitanni to Neo-Assyrian) candidate for Mitanni capital Washukanni (hot debate) — 90 ha lower town + 8 ha citadel mound at main Khabur karst spring (Ras al-Ain).

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Aswad

Pre-Pottery Neolithic B · Damascene PPNB (Aswadian)

PPNB mega-village (8700–7500 BCE, ~18 ha at peak) in the Damascus basin/ Ghuta, irrigated by the Barada, considered the place of the earliest fully domesticated emmer wheat and barley in the world.

🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city

Tell Mozan (Urkesh)

Early Bronze to Mitanni (Hurrian Urkesh) · Hurrian

Hurrian capital Urkesh (c.3000–1350 BCE) attributed to the god Kumarbi, with monumental Royal Palace of Tupkish (c.2250 BCE) and underground stone Abi (nekromanteion — pit to summon underworld…

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Feyda

Halaf–Ubaid (c.5700–4200 BCE) · Halaf → Ubaid northern

Khabur headwaters Halaf–Ubaid tell 7 m high (tholoi, dark-faced ware) at spring source.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Brak — Nagar/Nawar Mound

Halaf–Ubaid–Late Chalcolithic (6th–4th mill. BCE) through Mitanni to Late Bronze Age (c.6000–1200 BCE) · North Mesopotamian (Halaf/Ubaid, Late Chalcolithic, Mitanni-Hurrian)

Tell Brak (ancient Nagar/Nawar) is the largest prehistoric mound in northeastern Syria (main mound 60 ha, 43 m high; outer town 130 ha), occupied 6th–2nd mill.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Qarqur — Orontes Valley Multiphase Tell

PPNB to Mamluk (8500 BCE–1300 CE) · PPNB → Pottery Neolithic → EBA Amorite → Iron Syro-Hittite → Roman → Crusader

8600-year Ghab tell — PPNB to Crusader 30 m sequence (Harrison).

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Jerablus Tahtani South — Euphrates Burned Level

EBA I–III to MBA (2900–1800 BCE) · EBA Syro-Euphrates (Kish-related) → MBA Carchemish

EBA fortified oval town 2400 BCE — tomb 21 elite & burn Level III (Peltenburg).

🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient village

Tell Ramad — Mount Hermon Piedmont Neolithic Village

PPNB to Late Neolithic (8200–5300 BCE) · PPNB → Pottery Neolithic Yaumoukian /Halaf

PN white-ware hill village 7000 BCE — Veisselle Blanche & deformed skulls (Contenson).

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Tell Khuera — Südstadt (South Town)

Tell Kashkashok II

Tell Sukas (Sukas / Shuksi) — Phoenician Harbour Ridge

Tell Bi'a (Tuttul) — Zimri-Lim Palace Quarter

Tell Leilan Buried Acropolis Temple Platform

Tell Sabi Abyad Buried Burnt Village Ovens

Mari Buried High Terrace Mudbrick Massif

Tell Qarqur

Ugarit Buried House of Yabninu Tablet Archive

Tell Hadidi Buried Late Bronze Tablet House

Jebel Aruda Buried Uruk Enclave House C

Tell Tweini (Gibala)

Tell Leilan — Shekhna Mound Khabur

Tell Banat White Monument South

Tell Mureybet (Tell Mureybit)

Tell Arbid Southern Ridge

Tell Fekheriye (Washukanni?)

Tell Aswad

Tell Mozan (Urkesh)

Tell Feyda

Tell Brak — Nagar/Nawar Mound

Tell Qarqur — Orontes Valley Multiphase Tell

Tell Jerablus Tahtani South — Euphrates Burned Level

Tell Ramad — Mount Hermon Piedmont Neolithic Village

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