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Excavation ongoing places tagged “hatay” matching “Turkey”

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Tell Kurdu

EBA-Iron Age (c.3000-700 BCE) · Amuq/Syro-Hittite (Amuq A-J to Iron Age Patina)

Tell Kurdu — buried eba-iron tell/village at Hatay Province.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Tell Tayinat (Kunulua)

EBA through Iron III; Iron Age capital phase · Amuq EBA → Syro-Hittite Luwian-Aramaean Pattin → Assyrian Kinalua

Neo-Hittite capital of Pattin (20 ha double city) on Orontes — Bit-Hilani palaces, colossal Syro-Hittite sculpture and Luwian inscriptions, now cotton-buried lower town.