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🇮🇳 India · Pyramid
Mature Harappan (2600–2000 BCE, Farmana cemetery) · Harappan (Farmana / Daksha, Mature Harappan)
Farmana Mound — Haryana Daksha in Haryana, Rohtak District, Ghaggar plain (Farmana/Daksha), India is a Mature Harappan (2600–2000 BCE, Farmana cemetery) pyramid/mound site attributed to Harappan…
🇮🇳 India · Pyramid
Early Harappan to Mature Harappan (3500–1900 BCE) · Harappan (Rakhigarhi I–III, Ghaggar-Saraswati)
Rakhigarhi Mound — Haryana in Haryana, Hisar District, Ghaggar plain (ancient Saraswati), India is a Early Harappan to Mature Harappan (3500–1900 BCE) pyramid/mound site attributed to Harappan…
🇮🇳 India · Pyramid
Early to Late Harappan (3000–1800 BCE, Sothi–Siswal to Harappan) · Harappan (Mitathal I–II, Sothi–Siswal)
Mitathal Mound — Haryana in Haryana, Bhiwani District, Ghaggar plain (Mitathal), India is a Early to Late Harappan (3000–1800 BCE, Sothi–Siswal to Harappan) pyramid/mound site attributed to Harappan…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze Age through Iron Age II; MBA Khabur ware, Neo-Assyrian 11th–7th c. BCE · MBA Khabur ware → Middle Assyrian frontier → Neo-Assyrian provincial (Dunnu)
Upper Tigris Assyrian farmstead tell (c.1070–600 BCE) with Dunnu-ša-Uzibi archive — Ilısu salvage text site.
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Late Chalcolithic (3500–3000 BCE, pre-Uruk) · Late Chalcolithic north Mesopotamian
Tell Hazna Mound — Syria Balikh in Raqqa Governorate, Balikh Valley (Tell Hazna I), Syria is a Late Chalcolithic (3500–3000 BCE, pre-Uruk) pyramid/mound site attributed to Late Chalcolithic north…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Middle to Late Bronze Age, c.2200-1200 BCE (Amorite–Hittite) · Amorite / Hittite (Yamhad / Alalakh)
Tell Atchana 22 ha tell in Amuq Plain (Hatay): capital Mukish polity and Alalakh palaces. Excavated by Leonard Woolley (1935-49) and K.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient village
Early to Late Neolithic (c.5800–3300 BCE) · Thessalian Neolithic (Sesklo–Dimini sequence)
Sesklo (Early to Middle Neolithic c.5800–4400 BCE, Chalcolithic to 3300 BCE) is Thessaly's classic tell settlement 8 km west of Volos, a 13-m stratigraphic mound (Sesklo A acropolis 100 × 80 m) plus…
🇹🇷 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.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
MBA to Hellenistic (2000 BCE–100 BCE) · MBA Levantine → Hittite → Neo-Assyrian → Hellenistic Issos
Kinet Höyük North Harbour is the 15-ha northern basin of Kinet Höyük — identified with Issos, where Alexander beat Darius III (333 BCE).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Late Neolithic (Halaf–Hassuna), c.6200-5800 BCE (Neolithic, burn layer) · Halaf
Tell Sabi Abyad Balikh Valley (Raqqa): 5 ha tell (mound 10 m high) excavated by Peter Akkermans (Leiden/Amsterdam 1986–): Operation I Burnt Village 6000 BCE — intact burned houses with 3D preserved…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Chalcolithic through Nabataean; Iron Edomite peak · Feinan Chalcolithic → EBA → Edomite Iron → Nabataean
Feinan copper smelting metropolis (10 ha slag fields, Iron Edomite fortress) — Chalcolithic to Nabataean copper metropolis, biblical Punon with 100k tons 10th c. BCE slag.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic through Medieval; EBA III, MBA II, Hittite, Neo-Hittite, Assyrian · Syro-Anatolian; EBA Islahiye cluster → Hittite sphere → Neo-Hittite/Assyrian
37-m high Kilis plain tell (460×370 m) with EBA–Hittite–Neo-Hittite town and 30 ha buried lower town — frontier type-site.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze Age I–III through Middle Bronze Age (c.3000–1500 BCE) · Islahiye EBA (Amanus) with Early Transcaucasian influence → Hittite
Amanus cemetery-tell with 200+ EBA pithos burials and EBA–MBA houses — Islahiye plain mortuary type-site.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
EBA to Iron Age (Karaz → Mitanni → Assyrian) · Karaz (Kura-Araxes) → Mitanni Hurrian → Assyrian Iron
Tigris ritual mound (2800 BCE–Iron) with LBA pillared cult hall — bell-ritual and Mitanni seals on EBA Karaz village, Ilısu Laneri project.
🇭🇷 Croatia · Tell
Chalcolithic to Bronze Age (4500–1200 BCE) · Chalcolithic–Early Bronze
Ovčara–Vinograd — North Slope Insula (Slavonia) in Slavonia, Osijek-Baranja, Čepin, Croatia is a Chalcolithic to Bronze Age (4500–1200 BCE) tell attributed…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Chalcolithic through Byzantine; Hittite–Syro-Hittite peak · Cilician EBA → Hittite Empire (Kizzuwatna/Que) → Syro-Hittite Que
Cilician bend tell with Hittite imperial rock relief of Muwatalli II opposite mound — Chalcolithic to Syro-Hittite harbour town on Ceyhan.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
EBA-MBA-LBA (c.3500-1200 BCE) · Euphrates EBA to Old Babylonian/Mitannian
Tell al-Rimah (Qattara/Karana) — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Nineveh Governorate.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Northern Eridu Citadel Central — Eridu (53-38) at Eridu, Iraq is a Medieval (regional) tell of the Medieval tradition, built c. 200 CE for citadel and associated settlement.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
EBA-MBA-LBA (c.3500-1200 BCE) · Euphrates EBA to Old Babylonian/Mitannian
Tell Munbaqa (Ekalte) — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Raqqa Governorate.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
EBA-MBA-LBA (c.3500-1200 BCE) · Euphrates EBA to Old Babylonian/Mitannian
Tell Biasi — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Raqqa Governorate.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
EBA-MBA-LBA (c.3500-1200 BCE) · Euphrates EBA to Old Babylonian/Mitannian
Tell Fray — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Raqqa Governorate.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
EBA-MBA-LBA (c.3500-1200 BCE) · Euphrates EBA to Old Babylonian/Mitannian
Tell al-'Abr — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Aleppo Governorate.
🇲🇱 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...
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient village
Neolithic to Late Iron (1800 BCE–1500 CE) · Hadjer Lamis / Kotoko ancestral
3-m 115×85 m stratified mound establishing Chad Basin Neolithic-to-Iron sequence 1800 BCE–1500 CE.
