Tell Brak Nagar Central Mound at Hassakeh, Tell Brak, Syria is a Uruk to Mitanni ancient city of the Tell Brak / Nagar tradition, built c. 3900 BCE for major urban centre 130 ha with eye temple.

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Tell Mohammed Diyab Southern Extension

Hassuna to Iron Age (6500 BCE–800 BCE) · Hassuna/Samarra → Halaf → Ninevite V → Mittani → Iron Age Aramean

Tell Mohammed Diyab Southern Extension is the 9.8-ha southern skirt of Tell Mohammed Diyab on the upper Khabur plain — a 30-m tell with one of the longest Neolithic-to-Iron sequences in inland Syria…

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Jerf el Ahmar Twin Mounds

PPNA · PPNA Middle Euphrates

Jerf el Ahmar Twin Mounds at Aleppo, Middle Euphrates, Syria is a PPNA ancient village of the PPNA Middle Euphrates tradition, built c. 9500 BCE for twin-mound ppna village ea30 communal.

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Djaded Euphrates Village PPNB

PPNB · Euphrates PPNB

Djaded Euphrates Village PPNB at Aleppo, Euphrates, Syria is a PPNB ancient village of the Euphrates PPNB tradition, built c. 8500 BCE for ppnb village round to rectangular transition.

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Tell Atij (Hassek region)

EBA-MBA-LBA (c.3500-1200 BCE) · Euphrates EBA to Old Babylonian/Mitannian

Tell Atij (Hassek region) — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Hasakah Governorate.

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Tell Selenkahiyeh Southern Terrace

Early Bronze to Middle Bronze (3000–2000 BCE) · EBA Syrian → Akkadian → Post-Akkadian → MBA Syrian

Tell Selenkahiyeh Southern Terrace is the lower-town terrace south of the four-tell cluster (15 ha) on the Euphrates west bank, salvaged before Lake Assad (Tabqa Dam) rose 20 m.

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Tell Beydar (Nabada)

Early Bronze Age Ej II–IVa (Jezirah Early Dynastic to Akkadian) · North Mesopotamian Kish tradition, Semitic (Nabada Akkadian)

Circular walled 3rd-millennium city Nabada (c.2900–2200 BCE, Early Jezirah III), 28 ha upper town + lower town 20 ha, centre of western Jezirah after Tell Brak.

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Tell Barri (Kahat)

Early Bronze to Mitanni to Assyrian to Parthian · Hurrian Mitanni → Middle Assyrian

Stratified Jezirah tell Kahat (c.3000 BCE–1400 CE, peak Mitanni capital c.1500–1360 BCE and Assyrian Kahat) on Jaghjagh mid-Khabur.

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Tell Halaf

Neolithic to Iron Age (c.6100–612 BCE; peak Halaf 6100–5400 BCE, Guzana 1000–612 BCE) · Halaf → Ubaid → Mitanni → Assyrian → Aramaean (Bit Bahiani) → Neo-Assyrian

Tell Halaf (ancient Guzana) is the type-site of Halaf culture (c.6100–5400 BCE) defining Chalcolithic painted pottery, tholoi and stamp seals, and later Aramaea...

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Tell Shaykh Hassan

EBA-MBA-LBA (c.3500-1200 BCE) · Euphrates EBA to Old Babylonian/Mitannian

Tell Shaykh Hassan — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Raqqa Governorate.

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Ugarit

Neolithic to Late Bronze collapse 1190 BCE · Ugaritic Semitic (Amorite-Canaanite) under Hittite-Egyptian influence

Late Bronze cosmopolitan port (c.6000 BCE Neolithic to 1190 BCE destruction) on the Mediterranean, capital of the Kingdom of Ugarit (c.1450–1190 BCE) with cuneiform alphabetic tablets (world's first…

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Tell Sakka

Early Bronze Age III–IV (c.2600–2000 BCE) · Southern Syria EB (Ghouta palace culture)

Ghouta EB palace 8 ha (c.2600–2000 BCE, wall paintings, double enceinte) 18 km SE Damascus.

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Tell Aqab Settlement Ridge

Halaf to Ninevite V (5900–2600 BCE) · Halaf → Northern Ubaid → Uruk → Ninevite V

Tell Aqab Settlement Ridge is the Halaf–Ubaid–Uruk ridge on the Upper Khabur headwaters near Amuda — excavated by Davidson & McKerrell as the Halaf-Ubaid transition key in inland Syria.

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Tell Leilan — Acropolis Lower Town Gate

Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban

Tell Leilan — Acropolis Lower Town Gate in Al-Hasakah, Tell Leilan, Syria is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Bronze …

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Emar

Bronze Age (c.2000–1187 BCE), peak Late Bronze 1500–1187 BCE · Amorite → Mittanian → Hittite viceregal

Euphrates LB city 10 ha (1200 tablets, Baal/Astarte twin temples) on Lake Assad shore.

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Tell Ahmar — Til Barsip Neo-Assyrian Extension

Ubaid to Hellenistic (3500 BCE–200 BCE; peak Neo-Assyrian 856–610 BCE) · EBA → Mitanni → Syro-Hittite → Aramean Bit-Adini → Neo-Assyrian

Kar-Shalmaneser lower town 856 BCE — Aramean to Assyrian glazed palace.

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Tell Sukas (Shuksu)

MBA through Classical · Canaanite MBA → Ugaritic Shuksi (LB) → Phoenician → Greek emporion

Syrian coastal harbour tell (Shuksi) with MBA to Greek emporion — MBA Canaanite, LB Mycenaean imports and Phoenician Euboean emporion, Danish 1958 dig.

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Tell Ghoraife

PPNB to Late Neolithic (c.8200–6000 BCE) · Damascus PPNB → Yarmukian Pottery Neolithic

Ghouta oasis PPNB–PN village (c.8200–6000 BCE, Ghouta farming) 35 km S Damascus.

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Ebla

Early Bronze IVA–B (2400–1600 BCE) · Eblaite Semitic (Northwest Semitic)

Syrian superpower Ebla (c.3500–1600 BCE) with double-walled city (60 ha) and Royal Palace G — where Paolo Matthiae 1975 found the Ebla archive: 17,000 cuneiform tablets in Sumerian and Eblaite…

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Tell Ain Dara

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.

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Tell Halula South — Euphrates Pre-Pottery Annex

PPNA to PPNB (7800–5400 BCE; main 7600–6000 BCE) · PPNB Mureybetian → PPNB (Euphrates)

PPNB mega-village 7600 BCE — communal plastered houses & skull cult (Molist).

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Tell Sheikh Hamad

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...

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Tell el-Fekheriye (Sikkan / Washukanni?)

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).

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Tell Hamoukar Battle Site Northeast Syria

Tell Mohammed Diyab Southern Extension

Jerf el Ahmar Twin Mounds

Djaded Euphrates Village PPNB

Tell Atij (Hassek region)

Tell Selenkahiyeh Southern Terrace

Tell Beydar (Nabada)

Tell Barri (Kahat)

Tell Halaf

Tell Shaykh Hassan

Ugarit

Tell Sakka

Tell Aqab Settlement Ridge

Tell Leilan — Acropolis Lower Town Gate

Emar

Tell Ahmar — Til Barsip Neo-Assyrian Extension

Tell Sukas (Shuksu)

Tell Ghoraife

Ebla

Tell Ain Dara

Tell Halula South — Euphrates Pre-Pottery Annex

Tell Sheikh Hamad

Tell el-Fekheriye (Sikkan / Washukanni?)

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