🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Sonpur — Gandak Early Historic
Early Historic (600 BCE–400 CE) · NBP
Sonpur — Gandak Early Historic in Bihar, Saran, Gandak, India is a Early Historic (600 BCE–400 CE) ancient city attributed to NBP culture.
🇧🇩 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.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Poduri — Dealul Ghindaru Cucuteni Tell
Precucuteni to Cucuteni B (5200–3500 BCE) · Precucuteni → Cucuteni–Tripolye A3–B1 (Ariușd)
Cucuteni mega-tell 4600 BCE — 120 houses & salt-trade proto-city (Monah).
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Tell Yelkhi — Diyala Census Mound
Early Dynastic III to Akkadian (2600–2200 BCE) · Sumerian–Akkadian, Eshnunna sphere
Small but archive-rich Hamrin tell salvaged before dam, excavated by Japanese Mission (Fujii).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Bakla Tepe
EBA (c.3000-2000 BCE) · Western Anatolian EBA (Troy I-II, Yortan sphere)
Bakla Tepe — buried eba tell/village at İzmir Province.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Tell
Jeitun
Neolithic (c.6200–5000 BCE; Pre-Pottery to Early Ceramic Neolithic) · Jeitun culture (Kopet Dag Neolithic, precursor to Anau–Namazga)
Jeitun at Kopet Dag north piedmont is the type-site of Jeitun culture (c.6200–5000 BCE) — earliest farming village in Central Asia with mudbrick pisé houses, do...
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Tell
Tell el-Pit-Gill
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Tell el-Pit-Gill in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) tell attributed to Early Bronze Age 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.
🇵🇪 Peru · Tell
Tel Floodplain Höyük
Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age
Tel Floodplain Höyük in Ancash, Peru is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) tell attributed to Middle Bronze Age 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).
🇹🇷 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).
🇧🇬 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 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,…
🇸🇾 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.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell Madhhur (Hamrin)
Late Chalcolithic Uruk (3800–3100 BCE) · Uruk
Late Chalcolithic Uruk (3800–3100 BCE) Uruk tell at Diyala Governorate, Hamrin – type-site for uruk tripartite house (dims Mound 2 ha, tripartite house 20×8 m).
🇵🇹 Portugal · Tell
Tell el-Stan Knoll
Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) · Hellenistic
Tell el-Stan Knoll in Alentejo, Portugal is a Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) tell attributed to Hellenistic culture.