🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Akhetaten (Amarna) – Abandoned Sun City
New Kingdom Amarna Period (1353–1332 BCE) · Egyptian (Atenist reform)
Akhenaten's 1346 BCE desert sun capital – 12 km planned city and 382 Amarna Letters, abandoned after one reign.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Tell
Tell Kamid el-Loz (Kumidi)
Neolithic through Iron Age and Byzantine (c.5000 BCE–600 CE); Chalcolithic, EBA–MB, LB II Amarna Kumidi, Iron–Persian · Chalcolithic → EBA–MBA Beqaa → LB Egyptian vassal (Kumidi) → Iron Phoenician–Persian → Hellenistic
Beqaa Kumidi — Amarna Egyptian vassal palace with cuneiform archive and fresco (26 m, 16 m stratigraphy, LB II).
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Tell
Tell Arqa (Arqa)
Neolithic → EB → MB → LBA Amarna → Iron → Persian → Crusader (7000 BCE–1300 CE) · Levantine (Amorite → Egyptian/Hittite → Phoenician → Crusader)
Akkar plain tell-town (Neolithic–Crusader) — EB rampart, Amarna Irqata, Phoenician and Crusader castle on 30 ha.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Kazel (Sumur/Simyra)
MB → LBA Egyptian/Hittite → Iron Phoenician → Persian → Hellenistic (2000–300 BCE) · Amorite → Egyptian (Amarna) → Hittite → Phoenician
Amarna Sumur (350×325 m oval) — Egyptian garrison, Hittite destruction, Phoenician plain capital in Akkar.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Emar
Bronze Age (c.2000–1187 BCE), peak Late Bronze 1500–1187 BCE · Amorite → Mittanian → Hittite viceregal
Euphrates LB city 10 ha (1200 tablets, Baal/Astarte twin temples) on Lake Assad shore.