🇮🇳 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.
🇸🇾 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.
🇮🇳 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.
🇵🇰 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.
🇮🇳 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 Halula South — Euphrates Pre-Pottery Annex
PPNA to PPNB (7800–5400 BCE; main 7600–6000 BCE) · PPNB Mureybetian → PPNB (Euphrates)
PPNB mega-village 7600 BCE — communal plastered houses & skull cult (Molist).
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Trușești Cucuteni Settlement on the Jijia
Precucuteni to Horodiștea, peak Cucuteni A–B (4800–3800 BCE) · Cucuteni–Trypillia
One of Moldova's largest Cucuteni tells — Țuguieta mound 9 m stratigraphy (Precucuteni III to Cucuteni B1, Horodiștea) at Trușești, excavated by M. Petrescu-Dîmbovița 1951–61.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Hotnitsa North Tell — Veliko Tarnovo Gumelniţa
Late Chalcolithic Gumelniţa–Karanovo VI–Kodžadermen (4600–4300 BCE) · Gumelniţa–Kodžadermen–Karanovo VI
Chalcolithic burned village 4600 BCE — 407 gold items neighbouring mound (Chohadzhiev).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell el-Fekheriye (Sikkan / Washukanni?)
Middle Bronze to neo-Assyrian (c.2000 BCE–700 BCE), peak Middle Assyrian · Mitanni Washukanni? / Sikkan Assyrian
Spring-resurgent mound with 1.5-m deep Middle Assyrian level and 9th-c. bilingual Old Aramaic–Old Assyrian Hadad statue inscription (stated first to transcribe Akkadian into Aramaic).
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Ziggurat Mound of Tell al-Hiba (Lagash — Ibgal)
Early Dynastic to Ur III · Sumerian (Lagash dynasty)
Early Dynastic temple platform ziggurat Ibgal of Inanna at Lagash (Tell al-Hiba) — 40×30 m platform c.2500 BCE, precursor to classic Ur ziggurat.
🇬🇹 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.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Khirbat al-Mudayna
Iron Age (c.800–600 BCE; Moabite 800–600) · Moabite ( contemporary with Dibon, ruler Mesha? )
Khirbat al-Mudayna al-Aliya is a one-period enclosed Iron Age Moabite town (30 ha with 900-m casemate wall, 40 houses, sanctuary and reservoirs) — best-preserve...
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Yavne
MB to Crusader (c.2000 BCE–1260 CE; peak Philistine–Judah–Sanhedrin 1200 BCE–70 CE) · Canaanite → Philistine → Judahite → Hellenistic → Roman (Sanhedrin 70–135 CE) → Crusader
Tel Yavne (biblical Jabneel, Philistine Jamnia) is famed as the seat of the Sanhedrin after 70 CE — Yochanan ben Zakkai's Yavne academy that reconstituted Judai...
🇮🇹 Italy · Buried city
Bouldnor Cliff Mesolithic Submerged Floor North — Pozzuoli Bay (Naples)
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Local Neolithic
Bouldnor Cliff Mesolithic Submerged Floor North in Pozzuoli Bay, Italy is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) buried city attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇷🇴 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.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Tepe Ghabristan (Qabrestan)
Late Neolithic to Bronze Age (c.5000–2500 BCE; Plateau Chalcolithic type) · Tehran-Qazvin plateau Chalcolithic
Twin mound 330 × 250 m, 18 m high at Savajbolagh: type site of Qazvin Plain Chalcolithic where Fazeli & Coningham revealed Sialk I–II painted transition, first crude brick, kiln, and Zagros sealings…
🇹🇷 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.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Tell
Amri — Dadu
Pre-Harappan (3600–2600 BCE) · Amri
Amri — Dadu in Sindh, Dadu, Pakistan is a Pre-Harappan (3600–2600 BCE) tell attributed to Amri culture.
🇮🇷 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...
🇲🇽 Mexico · Buried city
Yarmouth Roads Submerged Forest West
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Local Neolithic
Yarmouth Roads Submerged Forest West in Yucatán Cenote, Mexico is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) buried city attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇹🇷 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.