🇸🇾 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.
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🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
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.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze Age (3100–1900 BCE) · EBA Syrian
Tell es-Sweyhat — Euphrates in Raqqa Governorate, Euphrates, Syria is a Early Bronze Age (3100–1900 BCE) tell attributed to EBA Syrian culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (8200–7800 BCE) · PPNB
Tell Ramad — Damascus Basin in Rif Dimashq, Damascus basin, Syria is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (8200–7800 BCE) tell attributed to PPNB culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Hellenistic to Byzantine (c.300 BCE–600 CE; Seleucid foundation 301 BCE) · Seleucid → Roman → Byzantine Euphrates
Seleucid gridded city (301 BCE) on Euphrates east bank — fossil Hellenistic plan at Jebel Khaled.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
PPNA (9500–8700 BCE) · Mureybetian PPNA
Euphrates PPNA village excavated by Stordeur 1995–99 rescue, EA30 with wild animal engravings and deliberate burning.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
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
Late Uruk to Early Bronze (3400–2400 BCE) · Late Uruk / Early Syrian
Bi'a hinterland mound excavated alongside Tuttul project, yielding Uruk contact ceramics and Early Bronze village phasing.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Bronze Age (2400–1200 BCE) · Mari-Ebla
Tell Hadidi — Azana in Aleppo Governorate, Euphrates, Syria is a Bronze Age (2400–1200 BCE) tell attributed to Mari-Ebla culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Halaf to Uruk (6000–3200 BCE) · Halaf→Ninevite 5
Tell Bderi — Khabur Halaf Settlement in Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria is a Halaf to Uruk (6000–3200 BCE) tell attributed to Halaf→Ninevite 5.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
EB IV to Iron I (c.2400–1000 BCE) · Eblaite → Amorite → Mitanni → Hittite/Emar → Aramaean
Euphrates terrace tell now peninsula in Tabqa Lake, excavated by Rudolph Dornemann; Emar texts identify it as Azu on the...
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
EB IV to MB II (c.2500–1700 BCE) · Eblaite → Amorite → Old Babylonian
28 ha Ebla-period town on the Matakh plain south of Aleppo, Italian excavations by Francesca Baffi. EB IV–MB II (c.2500–...
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Mittani (1500–1300 BCE) · Mittani Khabur
Tell Mohammed Diyab — Khabur Mittani Fort in Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria is a Mittani (1500–1300 BCE) tell attributed to Mittani Khabur.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
PPNA to PPNB (c.9600–8000 BCE) · PPNA → PPNB (Euphrates Neolithic)
PPNA-PPNB village (9600–8000 BCE) with lime-plaster houses on Euphrates Tishrin plain.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Middle Bronze to Byzantine (c.1800 BCE–600 CE) · MBA Canaanite → Late Bronze coastal → Iron → Hellenistic
Jableh plain farming tell (1800 BCE–600 CE) with Hellenistic amphora kiln north of Jableh.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Ubaid to Ninevite 5 (c.5000–2800 BCE) · Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic Uruk-related → Ninevite 5
Ubaid–Late Chalcolithic tell on the Wadi Khanzir, Russian-Syrian excavations by Rauf Munchaev. Spectacular Ubaid painted...
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient village
PPNB (8200–7000 BCE) · PPNB Ghoraife
Ghoraife — Damascus Basin Neolithic Hamlets in Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria is a PPNB (8200–7000 BCE) ancient-village attributed to PPNB Ghoraife. Hamlet scatter 0.5 ha with pits near Ghoraife wadi.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Jemdet Nasr to EB III (c.3100–2300 BCE) · Uruk-derived → EBA Euphrates → Akkadian sphere
Major Early Bronze I–III town (14 ha, 12 m high) on the Euphrates Tabqa bend, excavated by Mauritz van Loon. EB I–II pro...
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Ninevite 5 to Islamic (c.3000 BCE–1200 CE; peak Akkadian–Mitanni) · Ninevite 5 → Akkadian → Khabur ware → Mitanni → Neo-Assyrian
Multi-period Jazira tell (12 ha, 15 m high) in the Khabur triangle, Polish-Syrian excavations by Piotr Bieliński. Sequen...
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age · Eblaite (Semitic)
Ebla (Tell Mardikh) in Idlib Governorate, Syria is a Early Bronze Age to Iron Age ancient city attributed to Eblaite (Semitic) culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Halaf to Islamic (c.5900 BCE–1200 CE) · Halaf-Ubaid → Ninevite 5 → Mitanni → Assyrian
Jazira tell (8 ha, 12 m high) on the Jaghjagh, French excavations by Jean-Marie Castel. Sequence Ninevite 5 to Islamic w...
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Dynastic – Akkadian (2600–2200 BCE) · Early Dynastic–Akkadian
Early Dynastic – Akkadian (2600–2200 BCE) tell of Early Dynastic–Akkadian in Raqqa Governorate, Lake Assad (c.2600 BCE).
🇸🇾 Syria · Hydraulic works
Byzantine to Ayyubid–Ottoman palimpsest (Roman origins 4th c BCE–14th c CE continuity) · Byzantine / Ayyubid (Norias mainly Ayyubid 12th–14th c)
Seventeen surviving norias (river-driven water wheels) on Orontes River through Hama (285 m), largest Al-Muhammadiya 21 m diameter (largest noria in world, 1207 Ayyubid), lifting Orontes water 15–21…