Verified mounds

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Hassek Höyük

EBA-MBA-LBA (c.3500-1200 BCE) · Euphrates EBA to Old Babylonian/Mitannian

Hassek Höyük — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Şanlıurfa Province.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Gedikli Karahöyük North Mound

Late Chalcolithic to Middle Bronze (3500–1550 BCE) · North Syrian Chalcolithic → EBA Amuq → MBA Yamhad/Alalakh

Gedikli Karahöyük North Mound is the northern satellite of the Gedikli Karahöyük complex on the Islahiye plain — famed for its 200-grave EBA cemetery linking Amuq–Cilicia–Euphrates.

🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city

Shuruppak

Jemdet Nasr to Early Dynastic / Ur III abandonment · Early Dynastic Sumerian

Early Dynastic city-state (c.3000–2300 BCE) famed as home of Utnapishtim/Ziusudra, survivor of the Flood in Gilgamesh and Sumerian Flood story ('Instructions of Shuruppak' wisdom text).

🇵🇪 Peru · Tell

Yachaymarca (Yachay Marca)

Late Intermediate to Late Horizon (c.1000-1532 CE) · Andean Late Intermediate-Late Horizon (Wari–Inca)

Yachaymarca (Yachay Marca) — buried late tell/village at Ancash Region.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Tilmen Höyük (Tilmen Hoyuk)

EBA through Iron Age; MBA peak · Yamhad (Aleppo) vassal; Syro-Hittite → Assyrian

MBA palace city (Zalwar?) with basalt lion gate, cuneiform archive and planned lower town — Yamhad-period vassal capital in Islahiye corridor.

🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid

Kawa Temple T (Taharqo Sanctuary)

New Kingdom founder (Amenhotep III c.1380 BCE) revived 25th Dynasty Taharqo 690 BCE to Meroitic · Kushite (Napatan 25th Dynasty, Taharqo) Egyptianised

Large Kushite temple complex on east bank north of Dongola plain, with Temple T (Taharqo, 690 BCE, 40×30 m sandstone pylon), Temple A (Amenhotep III) and extensive town with pyramidal tombs south.

🇺🇸 United States · Tell

Keet Seel Cliff Dwelling

Ancestral Puebloan (c.600-1300 CE) · Anasazi/Puebloan (Basketmaker to Pueblo III)

Keet Seel Cliff Dwelling — buried ancestral tell/village at Arizona.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Taban (Ṭābetu)

Old Babylonian–Mittani (1900–1350 BCE) – Tabetu · Hurrian–Mittani

Old Babylonian–Mittani (1900–1350 BCE) – Tabetu Hurrian–Mittani tell at Al-Hasakah Governorate, Lower Khabur – city-state tabetu on khabur with cuneiform archive (dims 23 ha city with southern palace archive mound).

🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city

Klazomenai Urla Buried Quarters

Submycenaean to Classical (1100–386 BCE) · Ionian Greek (Klazomenai)

Archaic olive-press metropolis 650 BCE — earliest olive mills & Klazomenian sarcophagi.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Porsuk Höyük — Zeyve Höyük (Ulukışla)

Middle Bronze to Byzantine (2000 BCE–1100 CE; peak LBA–Iron) · Hittite → Syro-Hittite → Phrygian → Neo-Assyrian → Hellenistic

Gates-fort of Cilicia — Hittite to Byzantine 12 ha casemate island tell.

🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient village

Bandurria — Cotton Preceramic Mound Near Huacho

Preceramic (5700–2500 BCE Bandurria period with 3200 BCE monumental circular architecture to 4100 BCE Aceramic) · Preceramic Norte Chico (Bandurria part of Norte Chico Caral sphere 5000–3500)

Bandurria excavated by Chu 2007, 4100 mound earliest 2700 circular, cotton net.

🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city

Tell Brak (Nagar) (Al-Hasakah Governorate, Khabur Triangle)

Chalcolithic to Mitanni-Akkadian to Late Bronze · North Mesopotamian (Uruk → Akkadian → Hurrian)

Huge early city ('city without a state' per Oates) occupied 6000 BCE–1300 CE, peaking as Nagar kingdom (2600–2200 BCE) with Mitanni palace (1500 BCE) and Akkadian Naram-Sin palace.

🇪🇨 Ecuador · Pyramid

Cochasqui Northern Pyramids

Late Intermediate Caranqui 950–1470 CE to Inca 1470–1534 CE · Caranqui (Quitu-Cara, Cayambe) Cayambi-Inca

Northern cluster of Cochasqui Archaeological Park 28 miles north of Quito at 3100 m on Mojanda slopes: truncated earthen pyramids 20–24 m high on cangahua (volcanic) rock core, with ramps up to 290…

🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork

Turner Group Earthworks

Middle Woodland Hopewell 100–400 CE · Hopewell tradition (Turner phase)

Hopewell enclosure-mound group source of copper effigies and mica tombs on Little Miami terrace.

🇱🇧 Lebanon · Tell

Tell Fadous-Kfarabida

Early Bronze I–III (with Late Chalcolithic) · Early Bronze Levantine (coastal Canaanite)

EB I–III (3200–2500 BCE) coastal village with Egyptian imports — Lebanon's finest EB chronology.

🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village

Tetitla Apartment Compound (Teotihuacan)

Classic Teotihuacan (Tlamimilolpa) · Teotihuacano (multi-ethnic)

One of 2,000 apartment compounds that made Teotihuacan (100 BCE–550 CE, 200,000 inhabitants — largest city in Americas) a planned grid city.

🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell

Azcapotzalco (Tepanec capital)

Postclassic (c.1200-1521 CE) · Mesoamerican Postclassic (Tepanec-Aztec)

Azcapotzalco (Tepanec capital) — buried postclassic tell/village at Mexico City.

🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell

Tell Deir Alla (Pethor/Succoth)

Chalcolithic-Iron Age (c.5000-600 BCE) · Levantine EBA to Iron Age (Jordan Valley)

Tell Deir Alla (Pethor/Succoth) — buried chalcolithic-iron tell/village at Balqa Governorate.

🇫🇷 France · Tell

Tell el-Highfield Estuary

Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) · Jōmon

Tell el-Highfield Estuary in Occitanie, France is a Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) tell attributed to Jōmon culture.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Gritille Höyük — Karababa Lower South Terrace

Halaf to Medieval Islamic (6000 BCE–1300 CE; peak EBA–MBA) · Halaf → Ubaid → EBA Karababa → Neo-Hittite → Medieval

Deep Euphrates salvage sequence — Halaf to Medieval fort (12 m deposit).

🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village

Una Vida (Chaco Canyon)

Pueblo I-III; early Bonito · Chacoan pioneer (Pueblo I) → classic Bonito

Earliest canyon great house (800–930 CE) at eastern mouth — L-shaped early Bonito 80-room great house with great kiva, petroglyphs and Fajada alignment, Chaco genesis type.