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🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city

Mari Palace Western Annex Drain

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

Nahr Al-Kabir Canal (Orontes Coastal Canal, Nahr al-Kabir al-Janoubi)

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

Dur-Katlimmu

Middle Bronze Age to Late Antiquity (c.1800 BCE–300 CE), peak Assyrian 800–600 BCE · Mitanni → Middle/Neo-Assyrian → Parthian

Lower Khabur Assyrian capital 55 ha (600 tablets, Red House archive, canal) 70 km NE Deir ez-Zor.

🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city

Arslan Tash (Hadatu)

Iron Age Neo-Assyrian · Aramaean Hadatu → Assyrian province

Assyrian provincial Hadatu with 2.5 km walls, 11 lion gates and Phoenician ivory hoard.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Aqab (Tell Aqʿab)

Late Neolithic Halaf to Halaf-Ubaid Transition (6100–5300 BCE) · Halaf → Northern Ubaid (HUT)

Halaf-Ubaid Transition type-section — 10 m Halaf stratigraphy on Khabur headwater.

🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city

Tell Hamoukar

Ubaid to Late Chalcolithic / Early Bronze (c.4500–3200 BCE; urban peak LC2 c.3700 BCE) · North Mesopotamian LC indigenous → confronts Late Uruk expansion

13 ha fortified pre-Uruk northern city with eye-idol temple destroyed by Uruk sling-blitz.

🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city

Amrit

Amrit (Arabic: عمريت) is a small village near Tartus, in south-western Syria. It lies on the site of the ancient Marathus (Ancient Greek: Μάραθος, Marathos), a Phoenician port located near…

🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city

Dur-Katlimmu (Tell Sheikh Hamad) – Assyrian Port on Khabur

Mitanni to Neo-Assyrian (c. 1500 – 600 BCE) · Mitanni / Middle Assyrian / Neo-Assyrian

Khabur river provincial port – quay 60 m and lower town harbour basin 100×60 m silted east of tell.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Sabi Abyad Neolithic Mound — Balikh

Late Neolithic (Halaf–Hassuna), c.6200-5800 BCE (Neolithic, burn layer) · Halaf

Tell Sabi Abyad Balikh Valley (Raqqa): 5 ha tell (mound 10 m high) excavated by Peter Akkermans (Leiden/Amsterdam 1986–): Operation I Burnt Village 6000 BCE — intact burned houses with 3D preserved…

🇸🇾 Syria · Temple complex

Tell el-Qaramel Horned Building

PPNA to Early Bronze · Middle Euphrates PPN

Tell el-Qaramel Horned Building at Hama, Qaramel, Syria is a PPNA to Early Bronze temple complex of the Middle Euphrates PPN tradition, built c.

🇸🇾 Syria · Archaeological wonder

Al-Nayrab

Al-Nayrab (Arabic: النيرب) is a town in Syria, to the south-east of the city of Aleppo in northern Syria.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Jerf el Ahmar

Pre-Pottery Neolithic A · Mureybetian / Jerf Ahmar PPNA

Two PPNA villages (East and West, 9500–8700 BCE) on the Middle Euphrates now submerged under Lake Tishrin, famous for the earliest communal buildings with subterranean benches, decorated plaquettes…

🇸🇾 Syria · Temple complex

Royal Aleppo Sanctuary I — Aleppo (53-28)

Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic

Royal Aleppo Sanctuary I — Aleppo (53-28) at Aleppo, Syria is a Chalcolithic (regional) temple complex of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 800 BCE for sanctuary and associated settlement.

🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid

Little Aleppo Village North — Aleppo (53-49)

Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic

Little Aleppo Village North — Aleppo (53-49) at Aleppo, Syria is a Early Historic (regional) pyramid of the Early Historic tradition, built c. 800 BCE for village and associated settlement.

🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city

Dura-Europos

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

Tell Munbaqa (Ekalte)

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

Tell Munbaqa (Ekalte) — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Raqqa Governorate.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Biasi

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

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

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Fray

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

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

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell al-'Abr

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

Tell al-'Abr — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Aleppo Governorate.

🇸🇾 Syria · Archaeological wonder

Khan As'ad Pasha

Khan As'ad Pasha (Arabic: خَان أَسْعَد بَاشَا, romanized: Khān ʾAsʿad Bāşā) is the largest caravanserai (khān) in the Old City of Damascus, covering an area of 2,500 square metres (27,000 sq ft).

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Hamoukar South Town — Jazira Urban Anomaly

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 · 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.

🇸🇾 Syria · Fortress

Citadel of Garh Strath

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

Tell Nebi Mend — Qadesh South Outer Town

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.