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16 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇸🇾 Syria · Temple complex
Early Bronze Age (3000-2300 BCE) · Early Dynastic
Tell Beydar Temple A Annex Courtyard — Southern Extension in Al-Hasakah, Tell Beydar, Syria is a Early Bronze Age (3000-2300 BCE) temple complex attributed to Early Dynastic.
🇸🇾 Syria · Temple complex
Early Bronze Age (3000-2300 BCE) · Early Dynastic
Tell Beydar Temple A Annex Courtyard — Northern Annex in Al-Hasakah, Tell Beydar, Syria is a Early Bronze Age (3000-2300 BCE) temple complex attributed to Early Dynastic.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Predynastic (Buto-Maadi) to Dynastic to Greco-Roman · Lower Egyptian (Buto-Maadi) → Unified Egyptian
Dual city Pe and Dep — cult centre of cobra goddess Wadjet (tutelar of Lower Egypt) and predynastic–archaic capital that gives 'Buto-Maadi' culture (c.4000–3400 BCE, Palestine-like beveled rims,…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Jemdet Nasr to Early Dynastic / Ur III abandonment · Early Dynastic Sumerian
Early Dynastic city-state (c.3000–2300 BCE) famed as home of Utnapishtim/Ziusudra, survivor of the Flood in Gilgamesh and Sumerian Flood story ('Instructions of Shuruppak' wisdom text).
🇸🇾 Syria · Temple complex
Early Bronze Age (3000-2300 BCE) · Early Dynastic
Tell Beydar Temple A Annex Courtyard — Western Terrace in Al-Hasakah, Tell Beydar, Syria is a Early Bronze Age (3000-2300 BCE) temple complex attributed to Early Dynastic.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Early Dynastic to Ur III / Isin-Larsa · Sumerian
E-mah ziggurat of Ninhursag at Adab (Tell Bismaya) — 50 m square platform c.2600 BCE, place of the Indiana-Jones-associated Banks 1903–04 excavations.
🇸🇾 Syria · Temple complex
Early Bronze Age (3000-2300 BCE) · Early Dynastic
Tell Beydar Temple A Annex Courtyard — Eastern Outlier in Al-Hasakah, Tell Beydar, Syria is a Early Bronze Age (3000-2300 BCE) temple complex attributed to Early Dynastic.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tumulus
Early Dynastic (3100-2686 BCE) · Early Dynastic
Abydos Umm el-Qaab Royal Enclosure East Annex — Eastern Outlier in Sohag, Abydos, Egypt is a Early Dynastic (3100-2686 BCE) tumulus attributed to Early Dynastic.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tumulus
Early Dynastic (3100-2686 BCE) · Early Dynastic
Abydos Umm el-Qaab Royal Enclosure East Annex — Southern Extension in Sohag, Abydos, Egypt is a Early Dynastic (3100-2686 BCE) tumulus attributed to Early Dynastic.
🇸🇾 Syria · Temple complex
Early Bronze Age (3000-2300 BCE) · Early Dynastic
Tell Beydar Temple A Annex Courtyard in Al-Hasakah, Tell Beydar, Syria is a Early Bronze Age (3000-2300 BCE) temple complex attributed to Early Dynastic.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tumulus
Early Dynastic (3100-2686 BCE) · Early Dynastic
Abydos Umm el-Qaab Royal Enclosure East Annex — Northern Annex in Sohag, Abydos, Egypt is a Early Dynastic (3100-2686 BCE) tumulus attributed to Early Dynastic.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tumulus
Early Dynastic (3100-2686 BCE) · Early Dynastic
Abydos Umm el-Qaab Royal Enclosure East Annex — Western Terrace in Sohag, Abydos, Egypt is a Early Dynastic (3100-2686 BCE) tumulus attributed to Early Dynastic.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tumulus
Early Dynastic (3100-2686 BCE) · Early Dynastic
Abydos Umm el-Qaab Royal Enclosure East Annex in Sohag, Abydos, Egypt is a Early Dynastic (3100-2686 BCE) tumulus attributed to Early Dynastic.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Predynastic to Ptolemaic (Naqada to Late) · Egyptian Upper Egyptian → Pharaonic
Walled twin of Hierakonpolis — goddess Nekhbet vulture cult centre and Predynastic to Ptolemaic town with massive mudbrick walls (11 m thick, 500×550 m) dated Early Dynastic (c.3100 BCE) to Late…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Early Dynastic to Ur III · Sumerian (Lagash dynasty)
Early Dynastic temple platform ziggurat Ibgal of Inanna at Lagash (Tell al-Hiba) — 40×30 m platform c.2500 BCE, precursor to classic Ur ziggurat.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Early Dynastic Sumer to Akkadian · Sumerian / Akkadian
Key Sumerian city-state (c.3100–2000 BCE) dominating Early Dynastic Sumer, palace A, ziggurat, mentioned in King List as first city to have kingship after Flood. Discovered library archives.