🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Tuqan
EB IV to MB II (c.2500–1700 BCE) · Eblaite → Amorite → Old Babylonian
28 ha Ebla-period town on the Matakh plain south of Aleppo, Italian excavations by Francesca Baffi. EB IV–MB II (c.2500–...
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Tell Mohammed Diyab — Khabur Mittani Fort
Mittani (1500–1300 BCE) · Mittani Khabur
Tell Mohammed Diyab — Khabur Mittani Fort in Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria is a Mittani (1500–1300 BCE) tell attributed to Mittani Khabur.
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Tell Abr
PPNA to PPNB (c.9600–8000 BCE) · PPNA → PPNB (Euphrates Neolithic)
PPNA-PPNB village (9600–8000 BCE) with lime-plaster houses on Euphrates Tishrin plain.
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Tell Iris
Middle Bronze to Byzantine (c.1800 BCE–600 CE) · MBA Canaanite → Late Bronze coastal → Iron → Hellenistic
Jableh plain farming tell (1800 BCE–600 CE) with Hellenistic amphora kiln north of Jableh.
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Tell Hazna II
Ubaid to Ninevite 5 (c.5000–2800 BCE) · Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic Uruk-related → Ninevite 5
Ubaid–Late Chalcolithic tell on the Wadi Khanzir, Russian-Syrian excavations by Rauf Munchaev. Spectacular Ubaid painted...
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Tell Selenkahiyeh
Jemdet Nasr to EB III (c.3100–2300 BCE) · Uruk-derived → EBA Euphrates → Akkadian sphere
Major Early Bronze I–III town (14 ha, 12 m high) on the Euphrates Tabqa bend, excavated by Mauritz van Loon. EB I–II pro...
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Tell Arbid
Ninevite 5 to Islamic (c.3000 BCE–1200 CE; peak Akkadian–Mitanni) · Ninevite 5 → Akkadian → Khabur ware → Mitanni → Neo-Assyrian
Multi-period Jazira tell (12 ha, 15 m high) in the Khabur triangle, Polish-Syrian excavations by Piotr Bieliński. Sequen...
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Ebla (Tell Mardikh) (Idlib Governorate)
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age · Eblaite (Semitic)
Ebla (Tell Mardikh) in Idlib Governorate, Syria is a Early Bronze Age to Iron Age ancient city attributed to Eblaite (Semitic) culture.
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Tell Mohammed Diyab
Halaf to Islamic (c.5900 BCE–1200 CE) · Halaf-Ubaid → Ninevite 5 → Mitanni → Assyrian
Jazira tell (8 ha, 12 m high) on the Jaghjagh, French excavations by Jean-Marie Castel. Sequence Ninevite 5 to Islamic w...
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Tell Halawa (Tell Halawa A/B)
Early Dynastic – Akkadian (2600–2200 BCE) · Early Dynastic–Akkadian
Early Dynastic – Akkadian (2600–2200 BCE) tell of Early Dynastic–Akkadian in Raqqa Governorate, Lake Assad (c.2600 BCE).
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Tell Barri (Kahat) — Assyrian Palace and Neo-Assyrian Town
Early Dynastic through Parthian (2900 BCE–100 CE) · Early Dynastic Halaf → Mitanni Kahat → Middle & Neo-Assyrian
Tell Barri (Kahat) — Assyrian Palace and Neo-Assyrian Town is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Hasakah Governorate, Jaghjagh River, Tell Brak–Nisibis corridor, Syria — Hurrian Kahat then…
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Tell Aqab (Tell Aqʿab)
Late Neolithic Halaf to Halaf-Ubaid Transition (6100–5300 BCE) · Halaf → Northern Ubaid (HUT)
Halaf-Ubaid Transition type-section — 10 m Halaf stratigraphy on Khabur headwater.
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Tell Hamoukar
Ubaid to Late Chalcolithic / Early Bronze (c.4500–3200 BCE; urban peak LC2 c.3700 BCE) · North Mesopotamian LC indigenous → confronts Late Uruk expansion
13 ha fortified pre-Uruk northern city with eye-idol temple destroyed by Uruk sling-blitz.
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Tell Sabi Abyad Neolithic Mound — Balikh
Late Neolithic (Halaf–Hassuna), c.6200-5800 BCE (Neolithic, burn layer) · Halaf
Tell Sabi Abyad Balikh Valley (Raqqa): 5 ha tell (mound 10 m high) excavated by Peter Akkermans (Leiden/Amsterdam 1986–): Operation I Burnt Village 6000 BCE — intact burned houses with 3D preserved…
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Jerf el Ahmar
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A · Mureybetian / Jerf Ahmar PPNA
Two PPNA villages (East and West, 9500–8700 BCE) on the Middle Euphrates now submerged under Lake Tishrin, famous for the earliest communal buildings with subterranean benches, decorated plaquettes…
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Dura-Europos
Hellenistic-Parthian-Roman · Seleucid → Parthian → Roman
Macedonian-Euphrates cliff city (303 BCE–256 CE) called 'Pompeii of the Desert' — garrison of Parthian-Roman frontier buried under a Roman siege embankment that preserved the world's earliest…
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Tell Munbaqa (Ekalte)
EBA-MBA-LBA (c.3500-1200 BCE) · Euphrates EBA to Old Babylonian/Mitannian
Tell Munbaqa (Ekalte) — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Raqqa Governorate.
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Tell Biasi
EBA-MBA-LBA (c.3500-1200 BCE) · Euphrates EBA to Old Babylonian/Mitannian
Tell Biasi — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Raqqa Governorate.
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Tell Fray
EBA-MBA-LBA (c.3500-1200 BCE) · Euphrates EBA to Old Babylonian/Mitannian
Tell Fray — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Raqqa Governorate.
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Tell al-'Abr
EBA-MBA-LBA (c.3500-1200 BCE) · Euphrates EBA to Old Babylonian/Mitannian
Tell al-'Abr — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Aleppo Governorate.
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Hamoukar South Town — Jazira Urban Anomaly
Late Chalcolithic to EJ III (4500–2100 BCE; peak LC sprawl 3800 BCE) · LC northern Mesopotamian → Uruk → Ninevite 5
LC sprawl 4000 BCE battle town 3500 BCE — sling-bullet warfare horizon (Gibson).
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Tell Munbaqa
Early–Late Bronze Age (c.2400–1000 BCE) · Syrian Bronze Age (Ekalte)
Euphrates walled city 20 ha (2.5 km double wall, Ekalte Old Babylonian tablets) near Tabqa Lake.
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Tell Nebi Mend — Qadesh South Outer Town
EB IV to Persian (3000 BCE–330 BCE; peak LBA 1500–1200 BCE) · EB Amorite → Middle Bronze Amorite → Hittite Egyptian contested → Neo-Assyrian → Persian
Qadesh outer town 1274 BCE — Hittite–Egyptian battle plain south tell.
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Tell Kashkashok III
Ubaid–Uruk (5200–3100 BCE) · Ubaid – Uruk
Ubaid–Uruk (5200–3100 BCE) Ubaid – Uruk tell at Al-Hasakah Governorate, Khabur tributary – ubaid–uruk village on khabur tributary (dims Mound 2 ha, 6 m Ubaid–Uruk).