🇮🇳 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.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Tell
Ridge Grotto Höyük
Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) · Chalcolithic
Ridge Grotto Höyük in Petén, Guatemala is a Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) tell attributed to Chalcolithic 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).
🇫🇷 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).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Keşan Höyük
Middle–Late Bronze (2000–1200 BCE) · Thracian Bronze Age
Middle–Late Bronze (2000–1200 BCE) Thracian Bronze Age tell at Edirne Province, Thrace – thracian bronze age mound on thracian plain (dims Mound 6 m high, Bronze deposits with Troy imports).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Kumtepe
EBA (c.3000-2000 BCE) · Western Anatolian EBA (Troy I-II, Yortan sphere)
Kumtepe — buried eba tell/village at Çanakkale Province.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Lachish
Early Bronze to Babylonian destruction 587 BCE · Canaanite → Israelite/Judahite
Major Canaanite city-state and Judahite fortress second only to Jerusalem (Joshua, Hezekiah, Sennacherib's 701 BCE reliefs at British Museum).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Beşik Tepe — Troy Outer Coastal Settlement
Early Bronze I to Middle Bronze (2900–2000 BCE) · Troy I maritime / EBA Northwest Anatolian
Troy I harbour hamlet 2900 BCE — coastal EBA tumulus with Troy Ib wares.
🇧🇬 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 Bderi
Late Bronze to Neo-Assyrian (c.1600–600 BCE) · Mitanni Hurrian → Middle Assyrian
Stratified 7-m Khabur village documenting Mitanni–Assyrian agrarian collapse and recovery; Pfälzner exposed Mitanni granary with barley, then Middle Assyrian canal-side settlement with large storage…
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Tell Kazane — Euphrates Terrace Town Mound
Early Bronze Age (EB I–II, c. 3000–2500 BCE) · Euphrates Early Bronze, Kranzhügel culture precursor
Tell on Euphrates terrace south of Carchemish, excavated by Algaze and Breunig as part of Euphrates salvage, revealing Early Bronze planned town with orthogonal streets, temple on high terrace and…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Sheikh Hamad
Late Bronze to Neo-Assyrian (c.1400–600 BCE; provincial capital 900–600) · Mittani → Middle Assyrian → Neo-Assyrian provincial
Dur-Katlimmu on lower Khabur is largest Assyrian provincial centre (110 ha: 25-ha citadel + 85-ha walled lower town), Kühne excavations 1978–. Neo-Assyrian capi...
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Ashkelon
Early Bronze to Crusader 1191 CE · Canaanite → Philistine → Phoenician → Roman
Five-period tells (Canaanite vaulted mudbrick gate — oldest arch in the world c.1850 BCE, 4 m high; Philistine emporium of titans with 15,000 sq m market; Phoenician Tyrian-purple, Greek, Roman,…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Beidha — Nabataean Small Petra Extension Neolithic Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (7000–6500 BCE) then Nabataean Little Petra · PPNB then Nabataean
Beidha — Nabataean Small Petra Extension Neolithic Tell in Ma'an Governorate, Jordan is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (7000–6500 BCE) then Nabataean Little Petra tell attributed to PPNB then Nabataean.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Tal-e Atashi
Late 5th millennium BCE · Kerman Chalcolithic
Late 5th millennium BCE Kerman Chalcolithic tell at Kerman Province, Bam plain – chalcolithic village near bam with mudbrick houses (dims Mound 3 ha, 6 m Chalcolithic).
🇸🇾 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).
🇲🇦 Morocco · Tell
Tell el-Edge Ben
Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) · Ubaid
Tell el-Edge Ben in Souss-Massa, Morocco is a Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) tell attributed to Ubaid culture.
🇮🇶 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.
🇵🇪 Peru · Tell
Dolmen Cairn Höyük
Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) · Hellenistic
Dolmen Cairn Höyük in Ancash, Peru is a Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) tell attributed to Hellenistic culture.
🇹🇷 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 · Ancient city
Lagash
Jemdet Nasr to Ur III / Old Babylonian · Sumerian
Sumerian city-state Lagash (Tell al-Hiba proper) and its religious capital Girsu (Tello, 25 km SE) — often conflated as Lagash-Girsu.