🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Jebel Aruda
Late Uruk (LC5) · Uruk colony cult centre
Uruk hill-citadel (c.3500–3300 BCE) perched 160 m above Euphrates on limestone jebel opposite Habuba — sacred twin controlling Uruk colony from above.
🇸🇾 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 es-Sweyhat (Upper Lake Tabqa Euphrates Town)
Late Chalcolithic through Late Bronze (4400–1200 BCE) · Uruk → EB Syrian city-state → EB IV → Middle Bronze
Tell es-Sweyhat (Upper Lake Tabqa Euphrates Town) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Raqqa Governorate, Tabqa Lake (Euphrates) east bank, Sweyhat plain, Syria — Euphrates steppe-edge walled…