🇸🇾 Syria · Fortress
Chastel Blanc
Chastel Blanc (Arabic: برج صافيتا, Burj Safita or Safita Tower) is a medieval structure in Safita, western Syria. It was built by the Knights Templar during the Crusades upon prior fortifications.
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🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell es-Sweyhat (Upper Lake Tabqa Euphrates Town)
Late Chalcolithic through Late Bronze (4400–1200 BCE) · Uruk → EB Syrian city-state → EB IV → Middle Bronze
Tell es-Sweyhat (Upper Lake Tabqa Euphrates Town) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Raqqa Governorate, Tabqa Lake (Euphrates) east bank, Sweyhat plain, Syria — Euphrates steppe-edge walled…
🇸🇾 Syria · Fortress
Arab al-Mulk
Arab al-Mulk (Arabic: عرب الملك, also spelled Arab al-Milk, Beldi al-Melek, Balda al-Milk or Beldeh) is a coastal village in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Jableh District in the…
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Al-Jarud
al-Jārūd was a small-town in the Wadi Hamar area, about 40 km east of the Balikh River in present-day Syria, inhabited during the 9th century.
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Tell Hazna Mound — Syria Balikh
Late Chalcolithic (3500–3000 BCE, pre-Uruk) · Late Chalcolithic north Mesopotamian
Tell Hazna Mound — Syria Balikh in Raqqa Governorate, Balikh Valley (Tell Hazna I), Syria is a Late Chalcolithic (3500–3000 BCE, pre-Uruk) pyramid/mound site attributed to Late Chalcolithic north…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Qarassa North
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B to Pottery Neolithic (c.8500–6600 BCE) · PPNB (southern Levantine)
Leja PPNB megasite north lobe (c.8500–6600 BCE, corridor buildings, lime statues) on basalt plateau.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Tell Chuera (Chuera / Khuera)
Early Bronze Jezirah 0–III (Chalcolithic to Early Dyn to Akkadian) · North Mesopotamian Jezirah (Ebla-Mari world)
Circular double-walled Early Bronze city (c.3400–2200 BCE, EJ 0–III) in 130mm rainfall steppe — proof Jezirah cities flourished without southern irrigation via dry-farming + wadi runoff.
🇸🇾 Syria · Archaeological wonder
Fafertin
Fafertin (Arabic: فافرتين; Kurdish: Fafirtîn) is a village in northwestern Syria, located in the Jebel Sem'an region of the Dead Cities.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient village
Maydaa
Maydaa (Arabic: ميدعا) is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Douma District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, located east of Damascus.
🇸🇾 Syria · Buried city
Silt Sealed Workshop South
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Bronze Age
Silt Sealed Workshop South in Euphrates Valley, Syria is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) buried city attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient village
Babisqa
Babisqa (بابسقا) is a village in the Dead Cities of northwestern Syria. Its archaeological remains include two churches, large and small public baths, and a marketplace as well as unidentified…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Chagar Bazar — Khabur Ancient Town Extension
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.
