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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Şeyh Höyük (Kilis)

Early Bronze (3000–2200 BCE) · EB Levantine (Amuq F–G)

Early Bronze (3000–2200 BCE) EB Levantine (Amuq F–G) tell at Kilis Province – eb hamlet on basalt ridge south of oylum (dims Mound 100×80 m, 6 m EB).

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Ziyaret Tepe (Tušhan)

Bronze Age veneer → Neo-Assyrian provincial (Iron Age) · Mitanni → Middle/Neo-Assyrian (Ashurnasirpal II–Ashurbanipal)

Assyrian imperial capital Tušhan (883–611 BCE) — 32 ha citadel + lower town with palace, palace ware and Tigris quay, burned at Median fall, Upper Tigris frontier.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Tepecik

Late Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age (c.3500–2200 BCE) · Late Chalcolithic → Early Transcaucasian/Karabaz

Altınova EBA cemetery-village (c.3500–2200 BCE, 47 cist graves, Karaz ware) by Lake Keban.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Toptepe

Neolithic-Chalcolithic (c.6000-3500 BCE) · Kırklareli–Karanovo to Gumelnița-Karanovo VI

Toptepe — buried neolithic-chalcolithic tell/village at Kırklareli Province.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city

Hasankeyf

Assyrian to Ottoman (12th c. BCE–1920); peak Artukid–Ayyubid 12th–13th century · Assyrian → Roman → Byzantine → Artukid Kurdish → Ayyubid → Ottoman

Cliff-cut Tigris citadel with 10,000 caves, Artukid bridge and salvage-relocated Timurid tomb now under reservoir.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Tilki Tepe

Chalcolithic-EBA (c.5000-2500 BCE) · Kura-Araxes / Early Transcaucasian (Karaz-Pulur)

Tilki Tepe — buried chalcolithic-eba tell/village at Van Province.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Tülintepe

Halaf to Middle Ages (c.5800 BCE–1200 CE; Halaf-Ubaid transition type) · Halaf → Ubaid → Uruk → Early Bronze → Medieval

Altınova Halaf-Ubaid type mound (5800 BCE) 1 km from Norşuntepe, now under Keban Lake.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Bakla Tepe

EBA (c.3000-2000 BCE) · Western Anatolian EBA (Troy I-II, Yortan sphere)

Bakla Tepe — buried eba tell/village at İzmir Province.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village

Kenan Tepe

Pottery Neolithic to Early Bronze (6000–3000 BCE; peak LCh–Uruk 4500–3100 BCE) · Halaf-Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic north Mesopotamian → Uruk fringe

Upper Tigris concentric Chalcolithic complex with Uruk Bevelled Rim contact horizon.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Kurdu Tepe

Halaf–Ubaid (c.6000–3800 BCE) · Halaf → Ubaid (Amuq A–D)

South Amik Halaf–Ubaid village (c.6000–3800 BCE, geometric painted ware, stamp seals) on former lakebed.

🇹🇷 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.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Kilise Tepe

Late Chalcolithic through Byzantine; Hittite peak · Cilician Plain → Hittite Kizzuwatna frontier → Rough Cilicia Luwian

Göksu terrace tell with Chalcolithic–Byzantine sequence — Hittite pithos warehouses (Ura?), Luwian seals and buried industrial zone on plateau road.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex

Kurt Tepesi

Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPNA–PPNB) · Taş Tepeler

Tektek ridge T-pillar sanctuary linking Karahan and Harbetsuvan, ~5 ha with twin enclosures.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Körtik Tepe

PPNA to early PPNB (Late Epipaleolithic → Neolithic) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPNA, Upper Tigris forager-cultivators)

PPNA buried village (11200–9500 cal BP) with 400 burials under round-house floors — Upper Tigris type-site for Neolithic mortuary behaviour, Ilısu salvage.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Tille Höyük

EB → MBA → LBA → Iron Age → Hellenistic (3000–100 BCE) · Euphratean → Hittite → Neo-Hittite/Assyrian

Euphrates tell (EB–Iron, Hittite-Assyrian) — 18 m island mound, Atatürk Dam salvage type-site.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Türbe Höyük

Halaf-Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic → EBA/Uruk (5900–3100 BCE) · Halaf-Ubaid → Uruk (North Mesopotamian painted then Uruk expansion)

Halaf-Ubaid (5900–4800 BCE) Uruk-contact village — 4 ha buried Euphrates village, Birecik Dam salvage type-site.

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Türlü Höyük

EB I–III → MBA → LBA → Iron Age (3000–700 BCE) · Syro-Anatolian EBA (Euphrates tradition) → Amorite → Mitanni/Hittite

EB walled town (3000–2300 BCE) with 20 ha lower town — Carchemish-Aleppo plain urban gateway, Mitanni/Hittite contested.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Megalith

Göbekli Tepe

Pre-Pottery Neolithic · Hunter-gatherer (PPN A/B)

Hilltop Pre-Pottery Neolithic sanctuary with 8+ circular enclosures defined by T-shaped limestone pillars up to 5.5 m, carved with foxes, vultures, aurochs.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Megalith

Karahan Tepe

Pre-Pottery Neolithic · Taş Tepeler PPN

Major Taş Tepeler sister site to Göbekli Tepe, ~15 ha with quarries, 266 T-pillars and special building with 11 pillars and phallic/human-head statuary. Reveals 12-site hilltop sanctuary network.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village

Salat Tepe (Salattepe)

PPNB to Late Islamic (8500 BCE–1400 CE) · Upper Tigris PPN → Halaf/Ubaid → Uruk → Mitanni → Assyrian → Islamic

Ilısu rescue mound with PPNB–Mitanni–Assyrian sequence before Tigris inundation.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Tell Atchana

EB to LB (c.3400–1200 BCE; peak Level VII palace 1740–1400) · Eblaite → Amorite → Mittani → Hittite

Tell Atchana is ancient Alalakh, capital of Mukish in the Amuq, famous for Level VII palace (Yarim-Lim) with painted frescoes, Level IV palace of Idrimi (statue...