🇮🇱 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.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tell Qasile — Philistine-Iron Sanctuary Tell on Yarkon
Philistine (1177–985 BCE Strata XII-X) → Iron II · Philistine port-temple
Yarkon tell excavated by Mazar 1948–50, 1970s, with Philistine Bichrome and later Israelite shrine.
🇸🇾 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.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tell Gezer — Middle Bronze Glacis and Gate
Middle Bronze (2000–1550 BCE) glacis · Canaanite Gezer → Israelite → Philistine
Gezer excavated by Macalister 1902–09 and Dever 1964–, Amarna tablet city, Gezer Calendar found.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Chuera Northeast — Pottery Kiln Quarter 2600 BCE
Early Bronze (2600–2300 BCE Early Jezireh III) · Early Syrian Kranzhügel
Chuera suburb excavated alongside Steinbau by Meyer, production for 15 ha town.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Ebla — Royal Palace G Archive West Wing
Early Bronze IVA (2600–2300 BCE) archive · Early Syrian Eblaite
Mardikh excavated by Matthiae 1964–, 20,000 tablet fragments, bilingual Sumerian-Eblaite vocabularies and palace colonnade.