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926 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Rock-Cut Tomb Cluster Mideast 96 — Turkey Region 12 in Turkey Region 12, Turkey is a Iron Age tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Period Iron Age · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Tell of Painted Ware Mideast 23 — Jordan Region 11 in Jordan Region 11, Jordan is a Iron Age tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Chambered Cairn Hill Mideast 15 — Israel Region 3 in Israel Region 3, Israel is a Neolithic tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
Hyksos to Ptolemaic (1720 BCE – 73 CE) · Hyksos / Egyptian / Ptolemaic Jewish (Onias)
Northern spur of the classic double-tell of Yahudiya, with Hyksos rampart extension and Onias-period Jewish cemetery north of the temple platform where Petrie found inverted pots a...
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Period Neolithic · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Rock-Cut Tomb Cluster Mideast 1 — Syria Region 1 in Syria Region 1, Syria is a Neolithic tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇲🇱 Mali · Tell
Djenné-Djeno phase (250 BCE – 1400 CE; West Mound 300–900 CE) · Djenné-Djeno (Inland Niger Delta urbanism)
Western extension of Djenné-Djeno city cluster (2 km from central tell) with 450×400 m mound, floodplain ditch, iron workshops and terracotta of Inland Niger urbanism 800 years pre...
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Period Bronze Age · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Fortress Citadel Mideast 4 — Jordan Region 4 in Jordan Region 4, Jordan is a Bronze Age tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Fortress Citadel Mideast 41 — Israel Region 5 in Israel Region 5, Israel is a Neolithic tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Period Neolithic · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Quarry Gallery Mideast 57 — Turkey Region 9 in Turkey Region 9, Turkey is a Bronze Age tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Period Iron Age · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Stone Circle Ridge Mideast 67 — Syria Region 7 in Syria Region 7, Syria is a Iron Age tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Period Medieval · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Dolmen Avenue Mideast 56 — Israel Region 8 in Israel Region 8, Israel is a Neolithic tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Period Classical · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Quarry Gallery Mideast 81 — Israel Region 9 in Israel Region 9, Israel is a Iron Age tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Period Neolithic · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Buried Street Grid Mideast 28 — Iraq Region 4 in Iraq Region 4, Iraq is a Iron Age tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Period Iron Age · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Fortress Citadel Mideast 98 — Iraq Region 2 in Iraq Region 2, Iraq is a Bronze Age tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Period Iron Age · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Kurgan Field Mideast 80 — Syria Region 8 in Syria Region 8, Syria is a Iron Age tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze III to Old Babylonian (2600–1700 BCE) · Eblaite / Amorite Mariote
Bi'a excavated by Einwag & Otto 1981–, 2400 BCE Early Dynastic palace with Tuttul/Dagan texts, later Amorite palace of Yasmah-Adad.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
PPNB (8700–7500 BCE) · PPNB (Aswadian)
Damascus oasis village excavated by de Contenson 1960s–2008, oldest plastered skulls with wheat/barley and domestication evidence.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
PPNA to Early PPNB (10900–9500 BCE) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic A / Qaramelinian
Qaramel excavated by Mazurowski 1999–, oldest towers in Syria, PPNA round houses with skull cult and lithics older than Jericho.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Late Uruk to Early Bronze (3400–2400 BCE) · Late Uruk / Early Syrian
Bi'a hinterland mound excavated alongside Tuttul project, yielding Uruk contact ceramics and Early Bronze village phasing.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Uruk (3800–3200 BCE) temple; city 4200 BCE · Northern Uruk / Ninevite 5
Tell Brak excavated by Mallowan 1930s and Oates 1976–, Eye Temple with thousands of Eye Idols, proto-Zagros trade centre.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Late Chalcolithic (4500–3500 BCE) + Early Bronze · Late Chalcolithic Jazira (Hamoukar) → Southern Uruk intrusion
Hamoukar excavated by Gibson & Reichel 1999–, earliest urban battle c.3500 BCE, sling bullets and southern Uruk colony.
🇫🇷 France · Tell
Neolithic · Neolithic
Neolithic tell at Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Assyrian (750–610 BCE) · Neo-Assyrian provincial
Harran plain tell excavated by Lloyd & Gökçe 1951–52, yielding 600 tablets including Gilgamesh and astrological omens.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
PPNA (9500–8700 BCE) · Mureybetian PPNA
Euphrates PPNA village excavated by Stordeur 1995–99 rescue, EA30 with wild animal engravings and deliberate burning.
