🇸🇾 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.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Nebi Mend — Qadesh South Outer Town
EB IV to Persian (3000 BCE–330 BCE; peak LBA 1500–1200 BCE) · EB Amorite → Middle Bronze Amorite → Hittite Egyptian contested → Neo-Assyrian → Persian
Qadesh outer town 1274 BCE — Hittite–Egyptian battle plain south tell.
🇸🇾 Syria · Archaeological wonder
Citadel of Aleppo
3rd millennium BCE to present (Yamhad Bronze Age peak; current fortress 12th–13th c CE) · Amorite (Yamhad) / Hittite / Neo-Hittite / Hellenistic / Ayyubid / Mamluk / Ottoman
One of the oldest continuously fortified mounds in the world, Aleppo citadel occupies a 45 m-high tell (Yamhad kingdom capital c.1800 BCE).
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient village
Tell Aswad — Damascus Basin Neolithic Village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (8700–7500 BCE; phases I–III) · PPNB Levantine (Ghuta facies)
PPNB Ghuta village 8700 BCE — plastered skulls & earliest barley (Stordeur).
🇸🇾 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.
🇸🇾 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).
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Apamea
Seleucid to Byzantine Crusader · Seleucid → Roman → Byzantine
Seleucid garrison city and military elephant depot (Seleucus' 500 Indian elephants), later Roman Apamea with the grandest colonnaded cardo in the East — 1,850 m long, 37 m wide, 1,200 columns with…
🇸🇾 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 · 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).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Fecheriye
Middle Bronze to Neo-Assyrian (c.2000–600 BCE; bilingual 850 BCE) · Old Babylonian → Mittani (Washukanni?) → Middle Assyrian → Aramaean → Neo-Assyrian
Tell Fecheriye (ancient Sikan/Sikani) is 90-ha dual-mound south of Halaf on Khabur source, famed for 1979 Hadad-yithʻi bilingual statue — life-size basalt with...
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Qara Quzaq
Uruk to Islamic (4000 BCE–1200 CE) · Uruk → EBA Karababa → MBA → Hellenistic
Uruk–EBA ford mound 2700 BCE — burnt sealing houses at Qara Quzaq crossing.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Shiukh Fawqani South Mound — Middle Euphrates
Late Chalcolithic to Iron Age (3500–600 BCE; peak MBA–Neo-Assyrian) · Uruk → EBA → Middle Assyrian → Neo-Assyrian Aramean (Bit-Adini)
Burmarina Neo-Assyrian tablet town 725 BCE — MBA to cremation cemetery.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient village
Jerf el Ahmar — Early Neolithic Village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9500–9000 BCE) · Mureybet PPNA with communal buildings 130 m²
Jerf el Ahmar — Early Neolithic Village in Raďďa Governorate, Syria is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9500–9000 BCE) ancient-village attributed to Mureybet PPNA with communal buildings 130 m².
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient village
Bouqras — Euphrates Early Neolithic Village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (8000–6500 BCE) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic (Bouqras phase)
Bouqras — Euphrates Early Neolithic Village in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (8000–6500 BCE) ancient-village attributed to Pre-Pottery Neolithic (Bouqras phase).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Kashkashok III — Khabur Headwaters
Halaf late to Ubaid 4 (5200–3700 BCE; peak Ubaid 3 4500 BCE) · Halaf → Ubaid (Khabur facies)
Ubaid tripartite houses 4800 BCE — most intact Halaf-Ubaid transition cluster.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Abu Hureyra Northern Extension — Epi-Paleolithic to Neolithic
Natufian to Pottery Neolithic (11100–5800 BCE) · Natufian to Pre-Pottery
Abu Hureyra Northern Extension — Epi-Paleolithic to Neolithic in Raďďa Governorate, Syria is a Natufian to Pottery Neolithic (11100–5800 BCE) tell attributed to Natufian to Pre-Pottery.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Khuera — Südstadt (South Town)
EBA to Late Roman (3100 BCE–400 CE; peak EBA 2700 BCE) · EBA Jazira (Khabur zone) → Amorite → Roman
EBA rounded-town south annex 2700 BCE — palace F quarter and Roman overlay.
🇸🇾 Syria · Hydraulic works
Qasr al-Hayr Water Management System
Umayyad c.728–729 CE (Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik) · Umayyad (Syrian desert)
Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi (728–729 Caliph Hisham) – Umayyad desert castle double enclosure whose hydraulic system re-used Byzantine aqueduct (40 km Harbaka dam canal) to store in birka (70m reservoir),…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Halaf Extension — Guzana Outer Town Annex
Neolithic–Iron Age (6000–600 BCE) Halaf→Aramaean Guzana · Halaf culture then Aram (Guzana)
Tell Halaf Extension — Guzana Outer Town Annex in Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria is a Neolithic–Iron Age (6000–600 BCE) Halaf→Aramaean Guzana tell attributed to Halaf culture then Aram (Guzana).
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Posthole Structure Alignment North
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Iron Age
Posthole Structure Alignment North in Euphrates Valley, Syria is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) ancient city attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Mastuma
Early Bronze III – Iron II (to Late Roman) · Amorite/Aramaean – Luwian
Idlib plain fortified tell (2500–550 BCE) with 30-season Japanese excavation sequence.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Deltaic Buried Harbour West
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Deltaic Buried Harbour West in Euphrates Valley, Syria is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Beydar North Field — Nabada Annex
Early Dynastic to Old Babylonian (2800–1600 BCE) Nabada · Early Dynastic Nabada (150 tablets)
Tell Beydar North Field — Nabada Annex in Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria is a Early Dynastic to Old Babylonian (2800–1600 BCE) Nabada tell attributed to Early Dynastic Nabada (150 tablets).