🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Kannas (Tell Kannâs)
Late Uruk to Early Dynastic I–II (3500–2500 BCE) · North Mesopotamian Uruk → Early Bronze (EJ 1–2)
Euphrates levee town with Uruk planned lower town and EB fortification beside Habuba.
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🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Late Uruk to Early Dynastic I–II (3500–2500 BCE) · North Mesopotamian Uruk → Early Bronze (EJ 1–2)
Euphrates levee town with Uruk planned lower town and EB fortification beside Habuba.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Late Uruk (LC5) · Uruk colony cult centre
Uruk hill-citadel (c.3500–3300 BCE) perched 160 m above Euphrates on limestone jebel opposite Habuba — sacred twin controlling Uruk colony from above.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Neolithic to Sassanian (c.5000 BCE–632 CE; Uruk period city 4000–3100 BCE) · Sumerian / Babylonian / Persian
Type site for Uruk period and first true city (c.4000–3100 BCE), Uruk at peak 2900 BCE housed 50,000–80,000 inside 9.5 km city wall built by Gilgamesh (per Epic).