🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Ebla (Tell Mardikh) (Idlib Governorate)
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age · Eblaite (Semitic)
Ebla (Tell Mardikh) in Idlib Governorate, Syria is a Early Bronze Age to Iron Age ancient city attributed to Eblaite (Semitic) culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Afis (Afis / Hazrek) — Royal Platform Quarter
Early Bronze IV through Iron Age (EB IV, Iron Hazrek, Neo-Assyrian) · EB Syrian → Aramaean Hazrek → Neo-Assyrian
Tell Afis (Afis / Hazrek) — Royal Platform Quarter is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Idlib Governorate, Idlib District, Orontes valley east, Syria — Aramaean Hazrek kingdom capital — Zakkur…
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Tell Afis — Iron Age Temple Terrace and Acropolis Mound (Syria)
Early Bronze to Iron Age II (2500–700 BCE) · Amorite–Hittite–Aramean (Luhuti / Assyrian)
Tall acropolis tell 20 m high with second-millennium Middle Bronze palace and Late Bronze temple, capped by Iron Age I (Aramean) 30x22 m ashlar temple terrace — proto-pyramidal podium for storm-god…
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Ebla
Early Bronze IVA–B (2400–1600 BCE) · Eblaite Semitic (Northwest Semitic)
Syrian superpower Ebla (c.3500–1600 BCE) with double-walled city (60 ha) and Royal Palace G — where Paolo Matthiae 1975 found the Ebla archive: 17,000 cuneiform tablets in Sumerian and Eblaite…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Mastuma
Early Bronze III – Iron II (to Late Roman) · Amorite/Aramaean – Luwian
Idlib plain fortified tell (2500–550 BCE) with 30-season Japanese excavation sequence.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Afis (Afis)
Chalcolithic through Iron III; EB-MBA peak · Syrian EBA → Amorite → Mitanni/Hittite → Aramaean Luash
Idlib tell (26 ha) with Neolithic–Iron III sequence, MBA walls and Iron Temple of the Luash dynasty — findspot of Zakkur Stele, Hittite-period storage horizon.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Afis
EB IV to Byzantine (c.2400 BCE–600 CE; peak Iron II) · Eblaite → Amorite → Hittite/Mitanni → Neo-Hittite/Aramaean
Aramaean Hatarikka with alphabetic stele and Iron Age gate sphinxes atop 28 ha tell near Idlib.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Mardikh (Ebla)
Bronze Age · Mesopotamian
Ebla Bronze Age palace mound 60 ha tell, Royal Palace G (2400 BCE) 16,000 cuneiform tablets, Upper town acropolis.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell el-Kerkh
PPN to Ubaid (c.8500–4000 BCE; Neolithic floruit 8500–6600 BCE) · PPN → Pottery Neolithic → Halaf → Ubaid Rouj
Rouj basin triple mound (8500–4000 BCE) with aceramic PPN to Halaf-Ubaid sequence west of Idlib.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Tuqan Southern Rampart
EB IV to Iron Age (2500 BCE–800 BCE) · EB IV Amorite → Middle Bronze Yamhad → Late Bronze Hittite/Mittani → Iron Age Luwian
Tell Tuqan Southern Rampart is the 12-m-high earthen rampart sealing the 35-ha Middle Bronze walled city 35 km east of Maarrat al-Numan.