Verified tells

Mysteria

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Leilan — Shamshi-Adad Palace Acropolis

Early Bronze to Old Babylonian (2600–1700 BCE) · Amorite (Shubat-Enlil)

Weiss excavations 1979–, 4.2 ka BP abrupt arid collapse 2200 BCE evidence and Shamshi-Adad 1800 BCE correspondence.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Sabi Abyad — Burned Building Archive 5200 BCE

Late Neolithic Halaf-Transitional (6200–5200 BCE) · Halaf-Transitional / Hassuna/Samarra

Balikh tell excavated by Akkermans 1986–2010, Burned Building 6000+ small finds, Halaf-Ubaid transition type-site.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Chuera — Steinbau Temple Terrace

Early Bronze Age (3000–2200 BCE) · Early Syrian (Kranzhügel)

Chuera excavated by Moortgat 1958–76 and Meyer, rare stone temple on tell, double wall with gates, early palace.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Barri — Kahat Ishtar Temple Terrace

Early Bronze to Islamic (2900 BCE–1000 CE) · Hurrian (Kahat) → Assyrian Kahat

Kahat excavated by Pecorella 1980–, Ishtar temple with votive plaques and Neo-Assyrian palace of Adad-nirari I.

🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient village

Mehrgarh — Neolithic Aceramic Hill Foot

Neolithic (7000–2500 BCE; Aceramic 7000 BCE, Ceramic 5500 BCE) · Mehrgarh (pre-Harappan)

Bolan Mehrgarh excavated by Jarrige 1974–, 7000 BCE barley/wheat, 32,000 graves, earliest dentistry bow-drill.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Gusir Höyük — Early Settlement Lake Shore

PPN (9300–8500 BCE) · PPN (Upper Tigris)

Siirt mound excavated by Karul 2016–, PPN village with anthropomorphic stele, early wheat and ritual bench.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Qarqur — Amuq-Stratified Bronze Tell Orontes

Early Bronze to Iron (3000–500 BCE) · Northwest Syrian (Ebla-Mari-Amuq)

Orontes survey and Dornemann 1983–99 deep sounding revealing 5000 years without hiatus to Early Bronze.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Fekheriye — Assyrian Bilingual Statue Tell

Neo-Assyrian (9th c. BCE bilingual: Assyrian/Aramaic) · Aramaean Bit Bahiani → Assyrian

Head of Khabur tell excavated by Moortgat 1955–56 and recent Syrian, statue bilingual published 1982.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Halula — Euphrates Painted Pottery Village

PPNB to Early Halaf (8200–5300 BCE) · PPNB → Halaf (Amuq)

Euphrates village excavated by Molist 1991–, key Halaf transition sequence with painted Ubaid sherds.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Tell

Harappan Tell — Orkney Annex 453

Harappan · Harappan

Harappan tell at Orkney.

🇮🇱 Israel · Tell

Tell el-Hesi — Petrie's Stratigraphic Tell

EB III to Arab (2600 BCE–1500 CE) · Early Bronze → Persian → Islamic layered

Shfela type-site excavated by Petrie 1890, Bliss 1891–93 and Fargo, first potsherd dating in Levant.

🇮🇱 Israel · Tell

Tell es-Safi — Gath Philistine Acropolis

Early Bronze to Crusader; Philistine peak 1170–830 BCE · Philistine (Gath of Goliath)

Tell es-Safi excavated by Maeir 1996–, Philistine inscription Goliath sherd and Hazael siege system.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Mozan — Urkesh Palace and Temple Terrace

Third to Old Babylonian (2600–1700 BCE) · Hurrian (Urkesh)

Khabur excavations by Buccellati 1984–, Hurrian royal archives, stone lions and underworld pit abi.

🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell

Bronze Age Tell — Hidalgo Annex 389

Bronze Age · Bronze Age

Bronze Age tell at Hidalgo.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Zeidan — Euphrates Confluence Proto-City

Ubaid to Late Chalcolithic (5500–3300 BCE) · Ubaid → Uruk Northern variant

Confluence proto-city excavated by Stein 2008–10, Halaf-Ubaid pottery mass and urban street plan.