🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tell el-Farah North Sector 606
Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) · Israelite
Tell el-Farah North Sector 606 in Negev, Israel is a Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) tell.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tell el-Farah North Sector 779
Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) · Israelite
Tell el-Farah North Sector 779 in Negev, Israel is a Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) tell.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tell el-Farah North Sector 51
Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) · Israelite
Tell el-Farah North Sector 51 in Negev, Israel is a Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) tell.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Kisurra
ED to Isin-Larsa (c.3000–1750 BCE) · Sumerian → Akkadian → Ur III → Isin-Larsa
Kisurra (Abu Hatab) is a Sumerian city-state between Isin and Larsa, with ED palace and Ur III archive. German excavations (1900, 1990s) revealed city wall (2 k...
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell es-Sweyhat (Upper Lake Tabqa Euphrates Town)
Late Chalcolithic through Late Bronze (4400–1200 BCE) · Uruk → EB Syrian city-state → EB IV → Middle Bronze
Tell es-Sweyhat (Upper Lake Tabqa Euphrates Town) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Raqqa Governorate, Tabqa Lake (Euphrates) east bank, Sweyhat plain, Syria — Euphrates steppe-edge walled…
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Varvarovka
Late Chalcolithic Trypillia C1 (3800–3500 BCE) Southern Bug · Cucuteni-Trypillia C1 (Varvarovka variant, Usatovo contact)
Varvarovka (Varvarovca) — cluster of Cucuteni-Trypillia C1 settlements Varvarovka VIII and XV (c.3800–3500 BCE, 5–10 ha each) on Southern Bug right bank at Varvarovka village, Mykolaiv NW suburb, Bug…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Dilbat
Early Bronze to Neo-Babylonian (c.3000–539 BCE) · Sumerian → Akkadian → OB → Kassite → NB
Dilbat (Tell al-Deylam, ancient Dulbat) is a 30-ha Sumerian town 30 km south of Babylon on the Arahtu canal, centre of the grain-goddess Uraš and later Nabu of...
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Suberde (Göğrem Su Göleti)
Aceramic Neolithic to Early Pottery Neolithic · Central/West Anatolian Neolithic
Aceramic Neolithic lakeside tell (c.7500–6500 BCE) on terrace of Lake Suğla near Karadağ, excavated 1965–71 by Jacques Bordaz.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Can Hasan III
Pottery Neolithic–Early Chalcolithic (c.6300–5500 BCE) · Central Anatolian Pottery Neolithic
Small Neolithic mound (80 m diameter, 4 m high) on the Konya Plain, excavated by David French 1960s as the earliest of t...
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Karahöyük (Elbistan)
Early Bronze Age to Medieval (peak MBA–Hittite–Iron) · EB Anatolian → Hittite → Neo-Hittite/Tabal → Armenian Medieval
Large Elbistan Plain mound (300 × 250 m, 22 m high) dominating the Ceyhan headwaters, second only to Tilmen in the plain...
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell Drehem
Ur III (c.2112–2004 BCE; peak Shulgi–Ibbi-Sin c.2050 BCE) · Ur III state (Third Dynasty of Ur)
Ur III state cattle redistribution centre Puzrish-Dagan (Drehem) — Shulgi's royal livestock agency (c.2050 BCE) processing thousands of cattle/sheep for Ur and...
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Marad
ED to OB (c.3000–1750 BCE) · Sumerian → Akkadian → OB
Marad (Wannat es-Sadum) on Euphrates is a Sumerian–Ak K border town with Lugal temple; OB tablets show Kish sphere. Iraqi soundings reveal ED city wall and OB h...
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Samsat Höyük (Samosata)
Chalcolithic to Ottoman (peak Neo-Hittite to Roman) · Kura-Araxes → Neo-Hittite → Achaemenid → Commagenean → Roman
Capital mound of Commagene (Samosata) on a Euphrates meander, now island in Atatürk Reservoir. Pre-dam excavations revea...
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Tell
Gazargamu Nguru Palaeolake Mound
Late Kanem-Bornu (15th–18th c. CE) · Kanuri (Bornu)
Lake-fishery satellite tell west of Bornu capital on Nguru fen fen.
🇸🇾 Syria · Buried city
Silt Sealed Workshop South
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Bronze Age
Silt Sealed Workshop South in Euphrates Valley, Syria is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) buried city attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Buried city
Burr Stone Circles Extension
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Medieval
Burr Stone Circles Extension in Tassili, Algeria is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) buried city attributed to Medieval culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Chagar Bazar — Khabur Ancient Town Extension
Halaf to Old Babylonian (6000–1600 BCE) · Halaf then Amorite Ashnakkum
Chagar Bazar — Khabur Ancient Town Extension in Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria is a Halaf to Old Babylonian (6000–1600 BCE) tell attributed to Halaf then Amorite Ashnakkum.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient village
Sidari Neolithic Site on Corfu
Early to Middle Neolithic · Impressed Ware / Corfu Neolithic
Coastal Neolithic settlement at Sidari, northern Corfu, with Early to Middle Neolithic layers (c. 5800–5000 BCE) including impressed wares, obsidian and early farming evidence.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Tell
Khirbet et-Tell Outlier Sector 231
Bronze Age (3300-1200 BCE) · Canaanite
Khirbet et-Tell Outlier Sector 231 in West Bank, Palestine is a Bronze Age (3300-1200 BCE) tell.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tell el-Farah North Sector 858
Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) · Israelite
Tell el-Farah North Sector 858 in Negev, Israel is a Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) tell.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Zabalam
ED to Ur III (c.3000–2004 BCE; peak Shara temple) · Sumerian (Zabalam, Shara cult) → Akkadian → Ur III
Zabalam (Tell Ibzeikh) is the cult city of goddess Inanna of Zabalam (later Shara). Excavated by Iraqi team revealing Shara temple platform (EB), ED houses and...