🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell ʿAbr 3
Early Neolithic PPNA (c.9600–8800 BCE) · PPNA Euphrates village culture (with Jerf el Ahmar and Tell Qaramel)
PPNA farming village with painted communal building and rye-cultivation proof, drowned by Tishrin Dam.
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🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Tell Beydar Nagar North Palace
Early Dynastic · Nagar / Beydar culture
Tell Beydar Nagar North Palace at Hassakeh, Tell Beydar, Syria is a Early Dynastic ancient city of the Nagar / Beydar culture tradition, built c. 2500 BCE for town with palace and eblaite tablets.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Tell Chuera Hurrian City
Early Bronze · Hurrian / Tell Chuera
Tell Chuera Hurrian City at Raqqa, Tell Chuera, Syria is a Early Bronze ancient city of the Hurrian / Tell Chuera tradition, built c. 2800 BCE for walled hurrian city with palace antentempel.
🇸🇾 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 village
Tell Sabi Abyad Balikh Valley
Late Neolithic · Halaf / Ubaid
Tell Sabi Abyad Balikh Valley at Balikh Valley, Raqqa, Syria is a Late Neolithic ancient village of the Halaf / Ubaid tradition, built c. 6200 BCE for halaf fortified village with seals.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell al-Raqai
Early Dynastic (Early Jezireh I–II, c.2900–2600 BCE) · Ninevite 5 → Early Dynastic Khabur
ED Khabur granary town (c.2900–2600 BCE, 8 beehive silos, burnt grain) on Khabur tributary.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Halaf — North Palace Annex (Khabur)
Chalcolithic to Bronze Age (4500–1200 BCE) · Chalcolithic–Early Bronze
Tell Halaf — North Palace Annex (Khabur) in Al-Hasakah, Ras al-Ayn, Tell Halaf, Syria is a Chalcolithic to Bronze Age (4500–1200 BCE) tell attributed to Ch…
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Little Aleppo Platform Outer — Aleppo (53-35)
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Little Aleppo Platform Outer — Aleppo (53-35) at Aleppo, Syria is a Medieval (regional) pyramid of the Medieval tradition, built c. 1800 BCE for platform and associated settlement.
🇸🇾 Syria · Hydraulic works
Resafa (Sergiopolis) — North Basilica Cistern B
Early Bronze to Medieval (3000 BCE–1400 CE) · Hydraulic culture
Resafa (Sergiopolis) — North Basilica Cistern B in Raqqa, Resafa, Syria is a Early Bronze to Medieval (3000 BCE–1400 CE) hydraulic attributed to Hydraulic …
🇸🇾 Syria · Temple complex
Tell Brak — Eye Temple North Audience Hall
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Tell Brak — Eye Temple North Audience Hall in Al-Hasakah, Tell Brak, Syria is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex attributed to Mult…
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Mari — Palace East Wing Archive Room
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Mari — Palace East Wing Archive Room in Deir ez-Zor, Tell Hariri, Mari, Syria is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Bro…
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Ugarit — Royal Palace West Archive (Ras Shamra)
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Ugarit — Royal Palace West Archive (Ras Shamra) in Latakia, Ras Shamra, Ugarit, Syria is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attribute…
🇸🇾 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 · Ancient city
Ebla — Palace G North Store Room
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Ebla — Palace G North Store Room in Idlib, Tell Mardikh, Ebla, Syria is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age u…
🇸🇾 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 · Ancient city
Bosra — Nabatean Arch East Gate (Hawran)
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Bosra — Nabatean Arch East Gate (Hawran) in Daraa, Bosra, Syria is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age urban.…
🇸🇾 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 · Fortress
Dura-Europos — Citadel North Tower Gate
Iron Age to Classical (700 BCE–300 CE) · Iron Age fortified culture
Dura-Europos — Citadel North Tower Gate in Deir ez-Zor, Dura-Europos, Syria is a Iron Age to Classical (700 BCE–300 CE) fortress attributed to Iron Age for…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tomb
Palmyra — Tower Tomb E (Elahbel Sector)
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old–New Kingdom Egyptian
Palmyra — Tower Tomb E (Elahbel Sector) in Homs, Palmyra, Valley of Tombs, Syria is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) tomb attributed to Old–New King…
🇸🇾 Syria · Rock art
Hunstanton-Force Rock Shelter
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Hunstanton-Force Rock Shelter in Homs Governorate, Syria is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) rock art attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Buried city
Ridge Grotto Buried Settlement
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Ridge Grotto Buried Settlement in Homs Governorate, Syria is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) buried city attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇸🇾 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).