🇸🇾 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.
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Tagseuphrates
38 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Middle PPNB to Halaf-Ubaid (8500–5500 BCE) · Middle Euphrates PPNB → Halaf
Middle Euphrates PPNB–Ubaid sequence tell with fingerprint-on-figurine craft study.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
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 · Tell
Late Chalcolithic (Uruk) through Middle Bronze Age; EBA I–III urban · Uruk → EBA Euphrates urban → MBA Syro-Anatolian
Euphrates bend urban tell (c.3500–1600 BCE) with EBA II–III walled lower town — Chicago Atatürk Dam salvage type-site.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
PPNA to early PPNB (8600–7900 BCE) · PPNB Nemrik-Pre-Pottery Euphrates
PPNB T-pillar cult ridge — 8400 BCE terrazzo temple north bank (Hauptmann).
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
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.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
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
Late Chalcolithic 3800–3100 BCE (Phases A–B2) then Roman farmstead · Late Chalcolithic → Uruk contact/colonial → Roman
Uruk contact citadel lower town — Late Chalcolithic B2 Uruk colony (3600 BCE).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Halaf-Ubaid to Islamic (5500 BCE–1200 CE; peak EBA 2600–2000 BCE) · Halaf → Uruk → EBA Syro-Anatolian → Mitanni → Neo-Assyrian
EBA burned quarter of 100 ha Kazane mega-tell — Uruk to Neo-Assyrian sequence.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
PPNA to PPNB (7800–5400 BCE; main 7600–6000 BCE) · PPNB Mureybetian → PPNB (Euphrates)
PPNB mega-village 7600 BCE — communal plastered houses & skull cult (Molist).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Uruk to Islamic (4000 BCE–1200 CE) · Uruk → EBA Karababa → MBA → Hellenistic
Uruk–EBA ford mound 2700 BCE — burnt sealing houses at Qara Quzaq crossing.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
EB I–III → MBA → Late Bronze Hittite (3200–1200 BCE) with Iron Age coda · Kura-Araxes → Eastern Anatolian EBA → Hittite-Kizzuwatna fringe
EB–MBA–Hittite tell (Kebanon) — Kura-Araxes to Hittite fortress, Esin Keban salvage key sequence.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A · Mureybetian / Jerf Ahmar PPNA
Two PPNA villages (East and West, 9500–8700 BCE) on the Middle Euphrates now submerged under Lake Tishrin, famous for the earliest communal buildings with subterranean benches, decorated plaquettes…
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Early–Late Bronze Age (c.2400–1000 BCE) · Syrian Bronze Age (Ekalte)
Euphrates walled city 20 ha (2.5 km double wall, Ekalte Old Babylonian tablets) near Tabqa Lake.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
ED to OB (c.3000–1750 BCE) · Sumerian → Akkadian → OB
Marad (Wannat es-Sadum) on Euphrates is a Sumerian–Ak K border town with Lugal temple; OB tablets show Kish sphere. Iraqi soundings reveal ED city wall and OB h...
