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353 places in the atlas, 11 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (8200–7800 BCE) · PPNB
Tell Ramad — Damascus Basin in Rif Dimashq, Damascus basin, Syria is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (8200–7800 BCE) tell attributed to PPNB culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Bronze Age (2400–1200 BCE) · Mari-Ebla
Tell Hadidi — Azana in Aleppo Governorate, Euphrates, Syria is a Bronze Age (2400–1200 BCE) tell attributed to Mari-Ebla culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Halaf to Uruk (6000–3200 BCE) · Halaf→Ninevite 5
Tell Bderi — Khabur Halaf Settlement in Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria is a Halaf to Uruk (6000–3200 BCE) tell attributed to Halaf→Ninevite 5.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
EB IV to Iron I (c.2400–1000 BCE) · Eblaite → Amorite → Mitanni → Hittite/Emar → Aramaean
Euphrates terrace tell now peninsula in Tabqa Lake, excavated by Rudolph Dornemann; Emar texts identify it as Azu on the...
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
EB IV to MB II (c.2500–1700 BCE) · Eblaite → Amorite → Old Babylonian
28 ha Ebla-period town on the Matakh plain south of Aleppo, Italian excavations by Francesca Baffi. EB IV–MB II (c.2500–...
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Mittani (1500–1300 BCE) · Mittani Khabur
Tell Mohammed Diyab — Khabur Mittani Fort in Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria is a Mittani (1500–1300 BCE) tell attributed to Mittani Khabur.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Middle Bronze to Byzantine (c.1800 BCE–600 CE) · MBA Canaanite → Late Bronze coastal → Iron → Hellenistic
Jableh plain farming tell (1800 BCE–600 CE) with Hellenistic amphora kiln north of Jableh.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Ubaid to Ninevite 5 (c.5000–2800 BCE) · Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic Uruk-related → Ninevite 5
Ubaid–Late Chalcolithic tell on the Wadi Khanzir, Russian-Syrian excavations by Rauf Munchaev. Spectacular Ubaid painted...
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient village
PPNB (8200–7000 BCE) · PPNB Ghoraife
Ghoraife — Damascus Basin Neolithic Hamlets in Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria is a PPNB (8200–7000 BCE) ancient-village attributed to PPNB Ghoraife. Hamlet scatter 0.5 ha with pits near Ghoraife wadi.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Jemdet Nasr to EB III (c.3100–2300 BCE) · Uruk-derived → EBA Euphrates → Akkadian sphere
Major Early Bronze I–III town (14 ha, 12 m high) on the Euphrates Tabqa bend, excavated by Mauritz van Loon. EB I–II pro...
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Ninevite 5 to Islamic (c.3000 BCE–1200 CE; peak Akkadian–Mitanni) · Ninevite 5 → Akkadian → Khabur ware → Mitanni → Neo-Assyrian
Multi-period Jazira tell (12 ha, 15 m high) in the Khabur triangle, Polish-Syrian excavations by Piotr Bieliński. Sequen...
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age · Eblaite (Semitic)
Ebla (Tell Mardikh) in Idlib Governorate, Syria is a Early Bronze Age to Iron Age ancient city attributed to Eblaite (Semitic) culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Halaf to Islamic (c.5900 BCE–1200 CE) · Halaf-Ubaid → Ninevite 5 → Mitanni → Assyrian
Jazira tell (8 ha, 12 m high) on the Jaghjagh, French excavations by Jean-Marie Castel. Sequence Ninevite 5 to Islamic w...
🇸🇾 Syria · Hydraulic works
Byzantine to Ayyubid–Ottoman palimpsest (Roman origins 4th c BCE–14th c CE continuity) · Byzantine / Ayyubid (Norias mainly Ayyubid 12th–14th c)
Seventeen surviving norias (river-driven water wheels) on Orontes River through Hama (285 m), largest Al-Muhammadiya 21 m diameter (largest noria in world, 1207 Ayyubid), lifting Orontes water 15–21…
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Early Bronze Age (2900-1750 BCE) · Mari Culture
Mari Palace Western Annex Drain in Deir ez-Zor, Tell Hariri, Syria is a Early Bronze Age (2900-1750 BCE) ancient city attributed to Mari Culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Hydraulic works
Roman Hadrianic to Byzantine Justinian · Roman–Byzantine coastal Levant
Nahr al-Kabir: 3.2-km Roman 2nd-c. canalized river reach on Syria 35.30N coastal plain, Latakia.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Iron Age Neo-Assyrian · Aramaean Hadatu → Assyrian province
Assyrian provincial Hadatu with 2.5 km walls, 11 lion gates and Phoenician ivory hoard.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Hellenistic-Parthian-Roman · Seleucid → Parthian → Roman
Macedonian-Euphrates cliff city (303 BCE–256 CE) called 'Pompeii of the Desert' — garrison of Parthian-Roman frontier buried under a Roman siege embankment that preserved the world's earliest…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Late Chalcolithic to EJ III (4500–2100 BCE; peak LC sprawl 3800 BCE) · LC northern Mesopotamian → Uruk → Ninevite 5
LC sprawl 4000 BCE battle town 3500 BCE — sling-bullet warfare horizon (Gibson).
🇸🇾 Syria · Fortress
Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) · Chalcolithic
Citadel of Garh Strath in Homs Governorate, Syria is a Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) fortress attributed to Chalcolithic culture.
🇸🇾 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 · 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 · 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
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.
