🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Daruk
Early Bronze to Iron Age (c.2800–500 BCE) · EB coastal → Middle Bronze Canaanite → Late Bronze Ugaritic → Iron
Secondary coastal tell (2800–500 BCE) on Jableh-Baniyas corridor south of Sianu.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Arabid — Khabur Ceramic Production Mound
Ninevite 5–Uruk (3200–3000 BCE) · Ninevite 5
Tell Arabid — Khabur Ceramic Production Mound in Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria is a Ninevite 5–Uruk (3200–3000 BCE) tell attributed to Ninevite 5.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Habuba Kabira
Late Uruk/Jemdet Nasr (c.3500–3000 BCE) · South Mesopotamian Uruk colonial
Classic Late Uruk colony (c.3500–3000 BCE) on the Euphrates, 18 ha walled town with tripartite temples, administrative t...
🇸🇾 Syria · Temple complex
Tell Brak Eye Temple Outlier Sector — Western Terrace
Late Chalcolithic (4000-3200 BCE) · Uruk Period
Tell Brak Eye Temple Outlier Sector — Western Terrace in Al-Hasakah, Tell Brak, Syria is a Late Chalcolithic (4000-3200 BCE) temple complex attributed to Uruk Period.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Ugarit Royal Palace North Court
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Ugarit Royal Palace North Court in Latakia, Ras Shamra, Syria is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Tell Sabi Abyad Mound — Balikh
Late Neolithic, Halaf–Ubaid transition (6200–5200 BCE) · Halaf culture (type-site region)
Tell Sabi Abyad Mound — Balikh in Raqqa Governorate, Balikh Valley (Tell Sabi Abyad), Syria is a Late Neolithic, Halaf–Ubaid transition (6200–5200 BCE) pyramid/mound site attributed to Halaf culture…
🇸🇾 Syria · Hydraulic works
Qasr al-Hayr Upper Spring Canal — Palmyra Steppe Upper Bisayta Canal
Umayyad (727 CE Hisham) · Umayyad
Upper spring canal 6 km northeast of Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi palace (620 m) feeding into main Gharbi 11-km canal (already in DB as qasr-al-hayr-al-gharbi-canal).
🇸🇾 Syria · Hydraulic works
Qasr Al-Hayr Al-Gharbi Canal (Hir Azraq Canal to Palmyra Steppe Palace)
Umayyad (Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik) · Umayyad steppe palace culture
Hayr Gharbi: 16-km Umayyad 727 CE limestone canal from Harbaka Dam to steppe palace 34.52N 38.12E.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Halula
Middle PPNB to Halaf-Ubaid (8500–5500 BCE) · Middle Euphrates PPNB → Halaf
Middle Euphrates PPNB–Ubaid sequence tell with fingerprint-on-figurine craft study.
🇸🇾 Syria · Archaeological wonder
Harrat Al-Sham Kite Cluster (Syrian–Jordanian Harra Ridge)
PPN to Chalcolithic · Harra Neolithic lava-field hunters
Harrat al-Sham cross-border: 7 lava-levee kites linear 6.2 km on harra ridge crest.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Tuqan Southern Rampart
EB IV to Iron Age (2500 BCE–800 BCE) · EB IV Amorite → Middle Bronze Yamhad → Late Bronze Hittite/Mittani → Iron Age Luwian
Tell Tuqan Southern Rampart is the 12-m-high earthen rampart sealing the 35-ha Middle Bronze walled city 35 km east of Maarrat al-Numan.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell ʿAbr 3
Early Neolithic PPNA (c.9600–8800 BCE) · PPNA Euphrates village culture (with Jerf el Ahmar and Tell Qaramel)
PPNA farming village with painted communal building and rye-cultivation proof, drowned by Tishrin Dam.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Tell Beydar (Nabada)
Early Bronze Age Ej II–IVa (Jezirah Early Dynastic to Akkadian) · North Mesopotamian Kish tradition, Semitic (Nabada Akkadian)
Circular walled 3rd-millennium city Nabada (c.2900–2200 BCE, Early Jezirah III), 28 ha upper town + lower town 20 ha, centre of western Jezirah after Tell Brak.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Tell Barri (Kahat)
Early Bronze to Mitanni to Assyrian to Parthian · Hurrian Mitanni → Middle Assyrian
Stratified Jezirah tell Kahat (c.3000 BCE–1400 CE, peak Mitanni capital c.1500–1360 BCE and Assyrian Kahat) on Jaghjagh mid-Khabur.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Halaf
Neolithic to Iron Age (c.6100–612 BCE; peak Halaf 6100–5400 BCE, Guzana 1000–612 BCE) · Halaf → Ubaid → Mitanni → Assyrian → Aramaean (Bit Bahiani) → Neo-Assyrian
Tell Halaf (ancient Guzana) is the type-site of Halaf culture (c.6100–5400 BCE) defining Chalcolithic painted pottery, tholoi and stamp seals, and later Aramaea...
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Tell Leilan Lower Town South — Shubat-Enlil Annex
Ninevite 5 to Old Babylonian (3200–1728 BCE) Shamshi-Adad capital · Akkadian Shekhna→Amorite Shubat-Enlil (Shamshi-Adad I)
Tell Leilan Lower Town South — Shubat-Enlil Annex in Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria is a Ninevite 5 to Old Babylonian (3200–1728 BCE) Shamshi-Adad capital ancient-city attributed to Akkadian…
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Ugarit
Neolithic to Late Bronze collapse 1190 BCE · Ugaritic Semitic (Amorite-Canaanite) under Hittite-Egyptian influence
Late Bronze cosmopolitan port (c.6000 BCE Neolithic to 1190 BCE destruction) on the Mediterranean, capital of the Kingdom of Ugarit (c.1450–1190 BCE) with cuneiform alphabetic tablets (world's first…
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Tell Ahmar — Til Barsip Neo-Assyrian Extension
Ubaid to Hellenistic (3500 BCE–200 BCE; peak Neo-Assyrian 856–610 BCE) · EBA → Mitanni → Syro-Hittite → Aramean Bit-Adini → Neo-Assyrian
Kar-Shalmaneser lower town 856 BCE — Aramean to Assyrian glazed palace.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Tell Hamoukar — Early Urban Center South Extension
Late Chalcolithic–Uruk (4500–3000 BCE) pre-Uruk urbanism · Local North Syrian (Hamoukar culture)
Tell Hamoukar — Early Urban Center South Extension in Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria is a Late Chalcolithic–Uruk (4500–3000 BCE) pre-Uruk urbanism ancient-city attributed to Local North Syrian…
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Tell Mozan West Annex — Urkesh Outer Palace
Early Dynastic to Mittani (3000–1200 BCE) Hurrian Urkesh · Hurrian (Urkesh) then Mittani Washshukanni? debate
Tell Mozan West Annex — Urkesh Outer Palace in Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria is a Early Dynastic to Mittani (3000–1200 BCE) Hurrian Urkesh ancient-city attributed to Hurrian (Urkesh) then Mittani…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Ghoraife
PPNB to Late Neolithic (c.8200–6000 BCE) · Damascus PPNB → Yarmukian Pottery Neolithic
Ghouta oasis PPNB–PN village (c.8200–6000 BCE, Ghouta farming) 35 km S Damascus.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Palmyra
Hellenistic to Roman (Palmyrene Empire interlude) · Aramaean Palmyrene → Roman
Desert oasis emporium on Silk Road (1st c. BCE–273 CE) — 'Bride of the Desert' — caravans of Queen Zenobia who challenged Rome (267–272 CE, sacked by Aurelian).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Bazi
Early–Middle Bronze (2600–1600 BCE) · Euphrates EB – Mitanni
Early–Middle Bronze (2600–1600 BCE) Euphrates EB – Mitanni tell at Raqqa Governorate, Tabqa Dam zone – twin northern town with tell banat across euphrates branch (dims 15 ha northern citadel with Mittani temple).
🇸🇾 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.