🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Khamis
Halaf–Early Bronze Age (c.5600–2300 BCE) · Halaf → Ubaid → EBA Syro-Mesopotamian
Interfluve tell 9 m high (Halaf–Ubaid–EB, shaft tombs, black-burnished ware) between Euphrates and Sajur.
🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Temple complex
Bhasu Vihara — Shibganj
Gupta-Pala (5th–8th c.) · Gupta
Bhasu Vihara — Shibganj in Bogra District, Shibganj, Bangladesh is a Gupta-Pala (5th–8th c.) temple complex attributed to Gupta culture.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Chechar Kutubpur — Bihar
Chalcolithic (2000–1000 BCE) · Chalcolithic
Chechar Kutubpur — Bihar in Bihar, Vaishali, India is a Chalcolithic (2000–1000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Chalcolithic culture.
🇮🇳 India · Tell
Chirand — Bihar Neolithic
Neolithic-Chalcolithic (2500–1400 BCE) · Chirand culture
Chirand — Bihar Neolithic in Bihar, Saran, India is a Neolithic-Chalcolithic (2500–1400 BCE) tell attributed to Chirand culture culture.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Sippar
Early Bronze to Neo-Babylonian (c.3000–539 BCE; peak OB 1800–1600, NB 626–539) · Sumerian → Amorite (Babylon) → Kassite → Neo-Babylonian
Sippar — twin tell-city on Euphrates (Abu Habbah = Sippar-Yahrurum, Tell ed-Der = Sippar-Amnanum) and cult centre of Shamash sun-god with great Ebabbar temple,...
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Norşuntepe Village Extension — Keban Plain
Halaf to Urartian (5000 BCE–600 BCE) · Halaf → EBA Trans-Caucasian/Karaz → Urartian
EBA Keban village 2800 BCE — Karaz painted & copper crucible hamlet (Hauptmann).
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Ovcharovo Tell — Targovishte Ritual House Tell
Early Neolithic to Chalcolithic (5700–4300 BCE) · Karanovo II–VI → Kodžadermen–Gumelniţa
Ritual house tell 5700 BCE — plaster floor with 13 inhumations (Todorova).
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city
Pella of the Decapolis — Tabaqat Fahl
Neolithic to Islamic (6000 BCE–1400 CE) · Canaanite / Hellenistic / Roman Decapolis / Islamic
Pella of the Decapolis — Tabaqat Fahl in Jordan Valley, Jordan is a Neolithic to Islamic (6000 BCE–1400 CE) ancient-city attributed to Canaanite / Hellenistic / Roman Decapolis / Islamic.
🇮🇳 India · Earthwork
Tekkalakota — Bellary
Neolithic (3000–1500 BCE) · Southern Neolithic
Tekkalakota — Bellary in Karnataka, Bellary, India is a Neolithic (3000–1500 BCE) earthwork attributed to Southern Neolithic culture.
🇲🇱 Mali · Ancient city
Djenné-Djeno
Bio. Iron Age to Medieval (c.250 BCE–1400 CE; peak 400–1200 CE) · Djenné-Djeno culture / Inland Niger Delta Iron Age / Soninke-Bozo
Oldest sub-Saharan city (250 BCE–1400 CE) on Inland Niger Delta: 33 ha tell 8 m high with 69 mounds cluster spanning 4 km, without stone architecture but rich bio-archaeological sequence: slag, rice,…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Beydar Field I — Nabada Lower Extensions
Early Jazira I–V (3100–2100 BCE) · Early Jazira Hurrian precursor → Akkadian
EJ II Nabada planned insula 2420 BCE — tablet sealings & kiln quarter (Lebeau).
🇸🇾 Syria · Temple complex
Tell Ain Dara
Late Bronze – Iron Age II (Syro-Hittite) · Hittite – Syro-Hittite (Aramaean)
Syro-Hittite temple (1300–740 BCE) with 1-m footprints and sphinxes — Solomon's Temple parallel, destroyed 2018.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
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.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Kanmer — Kutch Harappan
Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Kanmer — Kutch Harappan in Gujarat, Kutch, India is a Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) ancient city attributed to Harappan culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Ulucak Höyük
Neolithic–Early Bronze (6850–3000 BCE) · Aegean Neolithic
Neolithic–Early Bronze (6850–3000 BCE) Aegean Neolithic tell at Izmir Province, Kemalpaşa – longest continuous aegean neolithic sequence (dims Mound 15 m high, levels I–IVb over 45 building horizons).
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient city
Kot Diji — Khairpur
Early Harappan (3300–2600 BCE) · Kot Diji
Kot Diji — Khairpur in Sindh, Khairpur, Pakistan is a Early Harappan (3300–2600 BCE) ancient city attributed to Kot Diji culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient village
Tell Aswad — Damascus Basin Neolithic Village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (8700–7500 BCE; phases I–III) · PPNB Levantine (Ghuta facies)
PPNB Ghuta village 8700 BCE — plastered skulls & earliest barley (Stordeur).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Malyan
Chalcolithic to Iron (c.4000 BCE–600 BCE; peak Proto-Elamite 3200–2800, Middle Elamite 1500–1100) · Proto-Elamite → Old Elamite → Middle Elamite (Anshan) → Persian Anshan
Malyan (Tal-e Malyan) is ancient Anshan — the great Elamite highland capital (130 ha) with Proto-Elamite tablets (3200 BCE, second after Uruk), Banesh phase mon...
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Yunatsite Tell — Pazardzhik Buried Balkans Tell
Early Neolithic to EBA (5800–2200 BCE; ditch phase 4600 BCE) · Karanovo I–VI → Karanovo VI–Gumelniţa → Ezero
Massacre tell 4600 BCE — 30 perimortem skeletons in ditches (Katincharov).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Ziwiyeh
Iron Age (c.900–600 BCE; Mannean–Median–Scythian 750–600) · Mannean → Median → Scythian (Ziwiyeh treasure)
Ziwiyeh is the looted but famous Iron citadel (fortified manor) above a Mannean deposit — 1947 treasure (gold pectoral with Winged genie, ivory plaques with Scy...
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Menteşe Höyük
Neolithic (6400–6000 BCE, Fikirtepe) · Marmara Neolithic
Neolithic (6400–6000 BCE, Fikirtepe) Marmara Neolithic tell at Bursa Province, Iznik Basin – fikirtepe hamlet on former lake terrace (dims Mound 120 m diam, 4 m Fikirtepe deposits).
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Shikarpur — Kutch
Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Shikarpur — Kutch in Gujarat, Kutch, India is a Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) ancient village attributed to Harappan culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Baiqa
Early Bronze (3000–2200 BCE) · EB South Levantine (Ghouta)
Early Bronze (3000–2200 BCE) EB South Levantine (Ghouta) tell at Damascus Basin, Ghouta fringe – eb walled town on damascus oasis fringe (dims Mound 8 ha, wall 8 m thick).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Mardikh — Ebla Lower Town South
EBA I to Old Syrian (3500–1600 BCE; peak Eblaite Palace G 2400 BCE) · EBA Eblaite → Eblaite Syrian → Old Syrian (Yamhad)
Eblaite capital lower town 2400 BCE — 17k tablets south quarter & Temple of Rock.