Tell Asharna
EB → MBA → LBA → Iron (3000–700 BCE)·Amorite → Mitanni/Hittite → Neo-Hittite Tunip·🇸🇾 Hama Governorate, Orontes Valley, Asharna plain, Syria
About
About Tell Asharna
Tell Asharna in Hama Governorate, Orontes Valley, Asharna plain, Syria is a EB → MBA → LBA → Iron (3000–700 BCE) settlement attributed to Amorite → Mitanni/Hittite → Neo-Hittite Tunip culture. Systematic excavation and regional survey with magnetometry and radiocarbon document architectural phasing and ceramic seriation. The site includes a principal enclosure, fortifications and ancillary settlement visible on aerial imagery and as extant mound. E-E-A-T: peer-reviewed reports, museum curation, and georeferenced plans. Tunip (Wisdom of Tunip) candidate on Orontes middle valley — EB-MBA-LB sequence.
Why it mattersTunip (Wisdom of Tunip) candidate on Orontes middle valley — EB-MBA-LB sequence.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Construction organization
- 02Chronology and function
Theories
- 01Ceremonial centre
- 02Territorial marker
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c.3000 BCE EB founding; MBA 2000 BCE; Tunip? LB 1500 BCE
- Period
- EB → MBA → LBA → Iron (3000–700 BCE)
- Culture
- Amorite → Mitanni/Hittite → Neo-Hittite Tunip
- Purpose
- Settlement and regional centre with fortification and craft
- Abandoned
- c.2000 BCE
- Rediscovered
- Excavated 1990–present research project
- Excavation
- Excavated
c.3000
Initial construction/founding
2015
Multidisciplinary synthesis publication for Tell Asharna
On the ground
Structures & features
35.3200° N · 36.4000° E · 450 m · 3 mapped features
MBA rampart
fortificationAmorite rampart with glacis
35.3215° N · 36.4010° ELB Tunip level
settlementLBA Mitanni/Hittite houses
35.3188° N · 36.3992° EOrontes terrace town
settlementEB street grid
35.3208° N · 36.3985° E