🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell Madhhur (Hamrin)
Late Chalcolithic Uruk (3800–3100 BCE) · Uruk
Late Chalcolithic Uruk (3800–3100 BCE) Uruk tell at Diyala Governorate, Hamrin – type-site for uruk tripartite house (dims Mound 2 ha, tripartite house 20×8 m).
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell al-Hawa — Mosul Plain Mega-Tell
Ubaid to Neo-Assyrian (4500 BCE–600 BCE; peak LC 3700 BCE) · Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic → Ninevite 5 → Mitanni → Neo-Assyrian
LC mega-nucleation 3700 BCE — 15 ha then 80 ha hollow-way town.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Tell
Tell el-Stan Knoll
Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) · Hellenistic
Tell el-Stan Knoll in Alentejo, Portugal is a Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) tell attributed to Hellenistic culture.
🇫🇷 France · Tell
Tell Kil-Knoll
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Tell Kil-Knoll in Occitanie, France is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) tell attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Horoztepe — Tokat Buried Elite Cemetery
EBA II–III (2600–2000 BCE) · North-Central Anatolian EBA (Alaca-Horoztepe horizon)
EBA elite shaft-cemetery 2500 BCE — gold diadems & stag stands (Özgüç).
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Tell
Tell Grove Khirbet
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Tell Grove Khirbet in Petén, Guatemala is a Moche (100–800 CE) tell attributed to Moche culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Liberty Earthworks
Middle Woodland Hopewell 100–350 CE · Hopewell tradition
Hopewell square 320 m with corner circles and Liberty Mound, Chillicothe cluster component.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Okolhuitz — Chenes–Rio Bec Hybrid Mound
Late Classic (550–850 CE) · Maya — Chenes/Rio Bec transitional
Transitional site noted by Nondédéo between Chenes Santa Rosa Xtampak sphere and Rio Bec core, its main structure shows Chenes stone mosaic masks on north façade and Rio Bec plain tower fragments on…
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Sultana-Malu Roșu North Cemetery
Gumelniţa–Kodžadermen (4600–4300 BCE) · Gumelniţa–Karanovo VI–Varna
Gumelniţa gold necropolis 4600 BCE — 1500 flat graves with Spondylus (Andreescu).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Qara Quzaq
Uruk to Islamic (4000 BCE–1200 CE) · Uruk → EBA Karababa → MBA → Hellenistic
Uruk–EBA ford mound 2700 BCE — burnt sealing houses at Qara Quzaq crossing.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Kavuşan Höyük (Batman Province, Beşiri–Ilısu zone, Upper Tigris)
Halaf-Ubaid to Late Bronze (5.5k–1200 BCE) · Ubaid → Khabur → Mitanni → Middle Assyrian
Beşiri Tigris tell (Ubaid through Late Bronze) with 12 m sequence — Mitanni kilns and Khabur ware, Ilısu Garzan buffer salvage.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Qatna
Early Bronze to Late Bronze (Amorite Hurrian) · Amorite then Hurrian-Mitanni Egyptian orbit
Mighty Middle Bronze (c.2800–1340 BCE) kingdom city of Qatna controlling eastern Homs basin, with 1 km-square royal palace (largest Bronze Age palace in Syria, 10,000 m²) and intact royal hypogeum…
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Tell el-Qasr Ditch
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Tell el-Qasr Ditch in Fars Province, Iran is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) tell attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Panaztepe Harbor Town
EBA to Iron Age (3000–800 BCE; peak LBA 1600–1200 BCE) · Western Anatolian → Mycenaean contact → Luwian/Ahhiyawa
Mycenaean-contact harbour citadel 1400 BCE — tholos tomb with Amber Road evidence.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Tell
Tell el-Scar Ridge
Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) · Jōmon
Tell el-Scar Ridge in Alentejo, Portugal is a Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) tell attributed to Jōmon culture.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Chogha Sefid
Neolithic (Bus Mordeh–Khazineh, c.7500–5800 BCE) · Deh Luran early Neolithic (Zagros)
Deh Luran tell 5 m high (c.7500–5800 BCE, Bus Mordeh–Khazineh, goat lentil) in Deh Luran plain.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Konar Sandal South (Jiroft)
Early Dynastic III–Akkadian (c.2500–1900 BCE) · Halil (Jiroft) / Proto-Elamite late → Early Dynastic sphere
Monumental third-millennium citadel (13 ha, 21 m high mound with 300 m lower town) on the Halil River, excavated by Yous...
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Ancient city
Hegra
Lihyan to Nabataean to Roman Arabia Petraea · Nabataean Arab
Second capital of Nabataean kingdom after Petra (1st c. BCE–106 CE), with 131 rock-cut monumental tombs with decorated façades (Qasr al-Farid loner tomb iconic), Nabataean Aramaic inscriptions…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Sapinuwa
Hittite Empire (c.1600–1200 BCE; peak Sapinuwa 1500–1200 BCE as second capital) · Hittite (Old → Empire)
Sapinuwa (Ortaköy, Çorum) is the Hittite Empire's second capital and military–religious administration — Building A with 3000+ Hittite cuneiform tablets (larges...
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Alişar Höyük Lower Terrace
Chalcolithic to Byzantine (4000 BCE–1200 CE; peak EBA–Phrygian) · EBA → Hittite → Phrygian → Lydian → Byzantine
Central Anatolian plateau capital lower town — Hittite karum to Phrygian burn.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Tell
Tell Fan-Moss Burgh
Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) · Nazca
Tell Fan-Moss Burgh in County Kerry, Ireland is a Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) tell attributed to Nazca culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Las Haldas Secondary Platform
Initial Period 2200–1000 BCE, Sechín-Casma tradition · Casma-Sechín (Initial Period)
Secondary platform south of main Las Haldas pyramid on coastal terrace 20 m above Pacific tidal flat: 9 m high stepped platform 40×35 m with plastered stair facing sea, contemporary with Sechín Bajo…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Serpent Mound Egg Enclosure — Mississippi Valley (St Louis)
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age
Serpent Mound Egg Enclosure in Mississippi Valley, United States is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) earthwork attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Earthwork
Sine-Saloum Shell Midden South
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Local Neolithic
Sine-Saloum Shell Midden South in Nok Valley, Nigeria is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) earthwork attributed to Local Neolithic culture.