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Giricano Tepe
Middle Bronze to Iron (c.1800–600 BCE) · Mitanni → Middle Assyrian → Neo-Assyrian
Middle Bronze to Iron Age mound (160 m diameter, 12 m high) on the Upper Tigris, salvage west of the Batman–Tigris confl...
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Kızılbel Tomb
Persian period (c.525 BCE; chamber c.525–500 BCE) · Persian-period Lycian (Elmalı dynasty under Achaemenid satrapy)
Persian-period painted chamber tomb (525 BCE) with 2.5 m banquet frieze under tumulus at Elmalı.
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Norsun Tepe (Norsuntepe)
Late Chalcolithic to MBA (Uruk, EBA, MBA) · Late Uruk → Transcaucasian (Kura-Araxes) → MBA Hurrian
Keban salvage tell with Chalcolithic–MBA stratified sequence — Uruk enclave, Transcaucasian (Karaz) and early Mitanni levels before Euphrates dam flooding.
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Sirkeli Höyük
Chalcolithic through Byzantine; Hittite–Syro-Hittite peak · Cilician EBA → Hittite Empire (Kizzuwatna/Que) → Syro-Hittite Que
Cilician bend tell with Hittite imperial rock relief of Muwatalli II opposite mound — Chalcolithic to Syro-Hittite harbour town on Ceyhan.
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Tatarlı Höyük
EBA → MBA → LBA → Phrygian → Persian (2600–500 BCE) · Anatolian EBA → Assyrian Colony fringe → Phrygian
EBA–Iron steppe tell (2600–500 BCE) — Haymana corridor walled town, Gordion-Hattusa buffer.
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Çayönü Tepesi
PPNA to Late PPNB / Pottery Neolithic · Upper Tigris Neolithic
Neolithic village (8300–5800 BCE) on the upper Tigris near Ergani, sequence spanning PPNA to Pottery Neolithic with world-firsts: earliest pig domestication evidence, early copper working (native…
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Boncuklu Tarla
PPNA through PPNB and early Pottery Neolithic · PPNA/PPNB Pre-Pottery Neolithic (Euphrates-Tigris transitional)
Ilısu north-bank mega hamlet (10300–7200 BCE) with 20 m pillared communal building — T-pillar stelae and largest PPNA stone assemblage in Upper Tigris, Mardin salvage.
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Hasankeyf Höyük
PPNA to Medieval; dominant Neolithic and Medieval citadel · PPNA/PPNB Neolithic → Assyrian → Artuqid Kurdish → Ottoman
Tigris gorge tell (PPNA Neolithic through Medieval) with cliff-edge Neolithic houses — gorge-side multi-period palimpsest partly encircled by Ilısu reservoir after 2020.
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Tepecik (İnegöl)
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Tepecik (İnegöl) — buried prehistoric tell/village at Bursa Province.
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Tepecik-Çiftlik
Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Late Chalcolithic (c.9000–5500 BCE) · Central Anatolian Neolithic → Early Chalcolithic
Cappadocian Neolithic tells (7 m high, 2 ha) in the Melendiz plain below Hasan Dağı obsidian sources. Excavated since 20...
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Tülintepe West
Late Neolithic–Chalcolithic (c.5500–3500 BCE) · Halaf → Ubaid–Altınova Chalcolithic
Western Altınova Neolithic–Chalcolithic village (Halaf–Ubaid, wattle-and-daub to mudbrick) under Lake Keban.
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Mezraa-Teleilat
PPNA through Ubaid (c.9600–5500 BCE); PPNA, PPNB, Halaf, Ubaid · Upper Euphrates Neolithic (Mezraa phase) → Halaf → Ubaid
Neolithic–Halaf Euphrates tell (c.9600–5500 BCE) with PPNA round huts to Halaf painted pottery — Euphrates Neolithic type-site.
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Tell Kurdu (Amuq)
Halaf through EBA; Ubaid peak · Amuq Halaf → Ubaid → Amuq F (L. Chalcolithic–EBA)
Halaf-Ubaid tell (15 ha oval) defining Late Chalcolithic Ubaid north expansion, with tripartite kiln houses and channel-painted ceramics.
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Hirbemerdon Tepe
EBA to Iron Age (Karaz → Mitanni → Assyrian) · Karaz (Kura-Araxes) → Mitanni Hurrian → Assyrian Iron
Tigris ritual mound (2800 BCE–Iron) with LBA pillared cult hall — bell-ritual and Mitanni seals on EBA Karaz village, Ilısu Laneri project.
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Hüseyindede Tepe
Old Hittite (1700–1500 BCE) · Hattian–Hittite
Old Hittite hill shrine with bull-leaping relief vases linking Anatolia to Aegean iconography.
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Tell Judaidah (Tell al-Judaidah)
Neolithic to Iron; Amuq A-B emphasis · Amuq A/B Neolithic → Ubaid → EBA → Iron Syro-Hittite
Amuq A Neolithic type mound (18 ha) — earliest Amuq painted village (c.6000 BCE) through Iron, defining northern Levantine Neolithic base.
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Tilbeşar (Tell Tilbeshar)
Late Chalcolithic through Byzantine; EBA III–MBA II, Hittite, Neo-Hittite, Assyrian (Iron II) · Euphrates–Islahiye EBA → Neo-Hittite Luwian → Neo-Assyrian provincial
56-m Neo-Assyrian provincial tell (Azâ) with EBA–Iron II fortified town and moat between Sajur and Euphrates.
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Van Fortress and Tushpa — Capital of Urartu
Urartian Kingdom (9th–6th century BCE; later Urartian–Median–Achaemenid–Ottoman) · Urartian (Biainili) → Median → Achaemenid → Ottoman
Urartu's 100 m limestone citadel over Lake Van with royal rock-tombs and Xerxes trilingual.
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Giricano Tepe (Gırcano)
Early Bronze Age through Iron Age II; MBA Khabur ware, Neo-Assyrian 11th–7th c. BCE · MBA Khabur ware → Middle Assyrian frontier → Neo-Assyrian provincial (Dunnu)
Upper Tigris Assyrian farmstead tell (c.1070–600 BCE) with Dunnu-ša-Uzibi archive — Ilısu salvage text site.
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Harran Tell (Harran Plain)
Early Bronze Age through Ummayad Abbasid (c.3000 BCE–750 CE); EBA, MBA, Assyrian, Roman, Islamic · EBA → Assyrian Bit-Adini → Aramaean → Hellenistic-Roman Carrhae → Ummayad Islamic
Bibliographic Harran tell — EBA to Ummayad capital of moon-god Sin (Haran) under medieval beehive city (c.3000 BCE–750 CE).
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Karaz (Kahraman) Tepe
Chalcolithic-EBA (c.5000-2500 BCE) · Kura-Araxes / Early Transcaucasian (Karaz-Pulur)
Karaz (Kahraman) Tepe — buried chalcolithic-eba tell/village at Erzurum Province.
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Tilmen Höyük (Tilmen Hoyuk)
EBA through Iron Age; MBA peak · Yamhad (Aleppo) vassal; Syro-Hittite → Assyrian
MBA palace city (Zalwar?) with basalt lion gate, cuneiform archive and planned lower town — Yamhad-period vassal capital in Islahiye corridor.
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Alalakh (Tell Atchana)
Middle to Late Bronze Age (c.2000–1200 BCE; Level VII palace 1650–1600 BCE) · Amorite / Yamhad / Hittite / Mitanni
Bronze Age capital of Mukish kingdom in Amuq plain, Alalakh yielded Levels VII–0 (Middle–Late Bronze) with cuneiform archives of King Idrimi's inscription (statue autobiography), Yarim-Lim palace,…
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Hallan Çemi Tepesi
Epipalaeolithic / PPNA transitional (Natufian-related → Pre-Pottery Neolithic) · Sason Epipaleolithic → PPNA Upper Tigris foragers
Epipalaeolithic-PPNA hamlet (c.11ky BP) with C-shaped communal auroch-bucrania building — earliest pig management and pre-Göbekli communal architecture, Sason Stream.