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🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Neolithic to Iron (6000–1180 BCE) · Canaanite/Phoenician
Tell Sukas — Shuksi Port in Latakia Governorate, coast, Syria is a Neolithic to Iron (6000–1180 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite/Phoenician culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Neolithic to Byzantine (7000 BCE+) · Neolithic to Roman
Yumuktepe — Mersin Mound in Mersin Province, Cilicia, Turkey is a Neolithic to Byzantine (7000 BCE+) tell attributed to Neolithic to Roman culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Bronze Age · Mesopotamian
Ebla Bronze Age palace mound 60 ha tell, Royal Palace G (2400 BCE) 16,000 cuneiform tablets, Upper town acropolis.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Bronze to Iron Age (1800–586 BCE) · Canaanite/Judahite
Tel Lachish — Shefela in Southern District, Shefela, Israel is a Bronze to Iron Age (1800–586 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite/Judahite culture.
🇮🇳 India · Tell
Pre-Harappan to Mature Harappan (3000–1700 BCE) · Harappan
Banawali Secondary Mound — Fatehabad Outlier in Haryana, India is a Pre-Harappan to Mature Harappan (3000–1700 BCE) tell attributed to Harappan.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Tell
Chalcolithic–Bronze Age (4000–2000 BCE) Mundigak · Mundigak–Helmand
Mundigak — Kandahar Bronze Age Mound in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan is a Chalcolithic–Bronze Age (4000–2000 BCE) Mundigak tell attributed to Mundigak–Helmand.
🇮🇳 India · Tell
Chalcolithic (3000–1700 BCE) · Ahar-Banas
Gilund — Mewar Ahar Settlement in Rajasthan, India is a Chalcolithic (3000–1700 BCE) tell attributed to Ahar-Banas.
🇮🇳 India · Tell
Early Harappan to Mature (3200–2000 BCE) · Pre-Harappan Padri ware then Harappan
Padri — Gulf of Cambay Harappan Salt Village in Gujarat, India is a Early Harappan to Mature (3200–2000 BCE) tell attributed to Pre-Harappan Padri ware then Harappan.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze Age (3100–1900 BCE) · EBA Syrian
Tell es-Sweyhat — Euphrates in Raqqa Governorate, Euphrates, Syria is a Early Bronze Age (3100–1900 BCE) tell attributed to EBA Syrian culture.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Samarra (6200–5800 BCE) · Samarra culture
Tell es-Sawwan — Samarra Village in Saladin Governorate, Tigris, Iraq is a Samarra (6200–5800 BCE) tell attributed to Samarra culture culture.
🇮🇳 India · Tell
Chalcolithic (1500–700 BCE) · Malwa–Jorwe
Bagh Mound — Narmada Terrace Settlement in Madhya Pradesh, India is a Chalcolithic (1500–700 BCE) tell attributed to Malwa–Jorwe.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Chalcolithic to Medieval (c.4500 BCE–1453 CE; Kura-Araxes from 3500 BCE) · Chalcolithic → Kura-Araxes (Karaz) → Early Transcaucasian → Urartian → Medieval
Transcaucasian gateway mound (4500 BCE–1453 CE) with 6 ka Kura-Araxes to Seljuk sequence at Erzurum.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Iron Age (1200–700 BCE) · Israelite (Judah)
Tel Beersheba — Biblical Negev in Southern District, Negev, Israel is a Iron Age (1200–700 BCE) tell attributed to Israelite (Judah) culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (8200–7800 BCE) · PPNB
Tell Ramad — Damascus Basin in Rif Dimashq, Damascus basin, Syria is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (8200–7800 BCE) tell attributed to PPNB culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze III–IV (c.2600–2100 BCE) · Early Jezirah III Ebla-contact
9-m step-terrace temple at Tell Hazna overlooking Khabur–Sinjar pass, stair and altar with Ebla-style cylinder seals, Soviet-Joint campaign 1988–2010 (Munchaev) exposing three ritual phases.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) · Ubaid
Tell al-Ubaid — Ubaid Type Mound in Dhi Qar Governorate, Eridu hinterland, Iraq is a Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) tell attributed to Ubaid culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Late Bronze Age to Persian (1500–332 BCE) · Canaanite / Phoenician / Persian
Tel Mevorakh — Coastal Plain in Sharon Plain, Israel is a Late Bronze Age to Persian (1500–332 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite / Phoenician / Persian.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Mittani to Assyrian (1500–600 BCE) · Mittani then Assyrian provincial
Tell Khasham — Khabur Frontier Fort in Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria is a Mittani to Assyrian (1500–600 BCE) tell attributed to Mittani then Assyrian provincial.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Tell
Middle Bronze to Iron Age (c.1800–600 BCE; 11 levels) · MB IIB → Late Bronze → Iron I–II (Bekaa Canaanite-Phoenician)
Bekaa agrarian tell with 11 levels (1800–600 BCE) and womb-burial inside AREC farm near Baalbek.
🇮🇳 India · Tell
Chalcolithic to Early Historic (3000 BCE–500 BCE) · Ahar-Banas
Balathal — Banas Valley Settlement in Rajasthan, India is a Chalcolithic to Early Historic (3000 BCE–500 BCE) tell attributed to Ahar-Banas.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Ubaid-related Late Chalcolithic (c.4200–3400 BCE) · North Mesopotamian Ubaid-related (Değirmentepe) → Late Chalcolithic Transcaucasian
Ubaid tripartite chiefly centre (4200 BCE) copying Mesopotamian temple plan north of Malatya.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Canaanite to Iron Age (3500–500 BCE) · Canaanite
Tel Gezer — Shefela in Central District, Shefela, Israel is a Canaanite to Iron Age (3500–500 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite culture.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Kura-Araxes to Iron Age (3200–800 BCE) · Kura-Araxes then Urmia ware
Tepe Bagh Azari — Urmia Bronze Mound in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran is a Kura-Araxes to Iron Age (3200–800 BCE) tell attributed to Kura-Araxes then Urmia ware.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Early Neolithic (c.8000–7100 BCE; Bestansur horizon) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic B → Pottery Neolithic Shahrizor
Shahrizor PPNB town (8000–7100 BCE) with courtyard houses and plaster floors SE of Sulaymaniyah.