🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell Hassuna
Neolithic Hassuna-Samarra (c.6000–5600 BCE) · Hassuna
Type site 1939–44 excavation by Seton Lloyd that defined the Hassuna painted pottery tradition of northern Iraq.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Kisurra
ED to Isin-Larsa (c.3000–1750 BCE) · Sumerian → Akkadian → Ur III → Isin-Larsa
Kisurra (Abu Hatab) is a Sumerian city-state between Isin and Larsa, with ED palace and Ur III archive. German excavations (1900, 1990s) revealed city wall (2 k...
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Kisurra (Tell Abu Hatab)
Early Dynastic–Old Babylonian (c.2700–1700 BCE) · Sumerian → Amorite Kisurra kingdom
Twin mound Abu Hatab (Kisurra) in the Euphrates back-marshes: Isin-Larsa era kingdom squeezed between Isin and Larsa, palatial archives (EB Kisurra texts), and ED IIIb votive stone of King Ibaya.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Shuruppak (Tell Fara)
Jemdet Nasr to Early Dynastic IIIa (c.3000–2500 BCE) · Early Dynastic Sumerian
Canoe-shaped Sumerian city Tell Fara 35 miles S of Nippur, legendary home of Ziusudra (Utnapishtim).
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell Billa (Shibaniba)
Late Bronze–Neo-Assyrian (c.1500–600 BCE) · Mitanni → Middle/Neo-Assyrian
Small but archive-rich tell 20 km N of Nineveh: Mitanni layer produced Nuzi-type tablets, Middle Assyrian governor’s correspondence (14 c. tablets) and Neo-Assyrian granaries. E.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell es-Sawwan
Neolithic Samarra (c.6300–5700 BCE) · Samarra → Ubaid
Ditch-moat village with 130 intramural graves: 130 adult Samarra graves beneath floors yielding alabaster “Sawwan” women – elongated skulls, bitumen-banded eyes – the largest Samarra figurine corpus.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Zabalam
ED to Ur III (c.3000–2004 BCE; peak Shara temple) · Sumerian (Zabalam, Shara cult) → Akkadian → Ur III
Zabalam (Tell Ibzeikh) is the cult city of goddess Inanna of Zabalam (later Shara). Excavated by Iraqi team revealing Shara temple platform (EB), ED houses and...
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Western Eridu Mound I — Eridu (53-37)
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Western Eridu Mound I — Eridu (53-37) at Eridu, Iraq is a Medieval (regional) ancient city of the Medieval tradition, built c. 1800 BCE for mound and associated settlement.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Babylon Processional Street North Gate
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Babylon Processional Street North Gate in Babil, Babylon, Iraq is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
El Kula Brick Pyramid
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
El Kula Brick Pyramid in Southern Alluvium, Iraq is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Classical culture.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Khafajah
Late Uruk to Old Babylonian (c.3400–1700 BCE; peak Early Dynastic) · Uruk → Jemdet Nasr → Early Dynastic (Akkadian/Sumerian Diyala) → Akkadian → Old Babylonian/Eshnunna
Diyala Sequence key town with 10-phase Sin Temple and Samsuiluna earthquake horizon.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Khorsabad Buried Sargon Palace Court VIII
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Khorsabad Buried Sargon Palace Court VIII in Nineveh, Khorsabad, Iraq is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Larsa Fresco House Wall Painting
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Larsa Fresco House Wall Painting in Dhi Qar, Tell as-Senkereh, Iraq is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Larsa — Tell Senkereh South Mound
Isin-Larsa (2025–1763 BCE) · Sumerian/Amorite
Larsa — Tell Senkereh South Mound in Dhi Qar Governorate, southern plain, Iraq is a Isin-Larsa (2025–1763 BCE) ancient city attributed to Sumerian/Amorite culture.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Muṣaṣir (Mudjesir)
Iron Age (1000–714 BCE) · Hurro-Urartian
Iron Age (1000–714 BCE) ancient-city of Hurro-Urartian in Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Sidekan (c.1000 BCE).
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Nimrud Buried Northwest Palace Throne Room Bas-Relief Base
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Nimrud Buried Northwest Palace Throne Room Bas-Relief Base in Nineveh, Nimrud, Iraq is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Nimrud Fort Shalmaneser Magazine 45
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Nimrud Fort Shalmaneser Magazine 45 in Nineveh, Nimrud, Iraq is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Nineveh Kuyunjik Palace Relief Panel 12
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Nineveh Kuyunjik Palace Relief Panel 12 in Nineveh, Kuyunjik, Iraq is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Nuzi Palace Archive Room 5
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Nuzi Palace Archive Room 5 in Kirkuk, Yorghan Tepe, Iraq is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Royal Eridu Hilltop South — Eridu (53-34)
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Royal Eridu Hilltop South — Eridu (53-34) at Eridu, Iraq is a Early Historic (regional) ancient city of the Early Historic tradition, built c. 400 BCE for hilltop and associated settlement.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell Hawa
Neolithic–Iron Age (c.6100–600 BCE) plus later · Halaf → Ubaid → Ninevite 5 → ED–Akkadian → Mittanian–Assyrian
Sinjar plain megamound 80 ha (Halaf–Assyrian 6k yr sequence, 25 m high) near Tel Afar.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Ur
Ubaid to Persian (c.3800 BCE–300 BCE; Early Dynastic/Ur III peak 2600–2000 BCE) · Sumerian / Akkadian / Babylonian / Persian
Sumerian city-state of the moon god Nanna (Sîn), Ur famous for Woolley's excavations 1922–34: Ziggurat of Ur-Nammu (2112 BCE) best-preserved ziggurat, Royal Cemetery with Standard of Ur, Pu-abi's…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Ur Royal Cemetery PG 800 Death Pit
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Ur Royal Cemetery PG 800 Death Pit in Dhi Qar, Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Ur — Tell Muqayyar Diqdiqqah Residential
Ubaid to Neo-Babylonian (4000–500 BCE) · Sumerian
Ur — Tell Muqayyar Diqdiqqah Residential in Dhi Qar Governorate, Euphrates, Iraq is a Ubaid to Neo-Babylonian (4000–500 BCE) ancient city attributed to Sumerian culture.