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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Chalcolithic through Byzantine (Chalcolithic, EB III Royal Tombs, Hattian, Hittite, Phrygian) · Hattian (Hamaylı) → Hittite → Phrygian
Alaca Höyük (Royal Tombs Annex Northeast) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Çorum Province, Alaca District, Boğazkale–Alaca ridge, Turkey — Hattian princely necropolis and Hittite cult centre…
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Late Neolithic through Eneolithic (Boian → Gumelnița → Cernavodă) · Boian → Gumelnița → Cernavodă I
Bordușani-Popină (Bordușani Island Tell) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Ialomița County, Bordușani Commune, Balta Ialomiței island, Danube floodplain, Romania — Danube floodplain island…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze Age I–III (c.3500–2000 BCE) with Late Chalcolithic base · Western Anatolian EBA (Eskişehir phase, Troy I–II contemporary)
EBA II–III walled plateau town (c.3500–2000 BCE) with monumental compound and planned lower town — Eskişehir plain urbanism type-site.
🇬🇷 Greece · Tell
Late Neolithic → Chalcolithic → EBA (5500–2200 BCE) · Late Neolithic → Chalcolithic → EBA (5500–2200 BCE)
Sitagroi in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Drama Plain, Sitagroi village, Greece is a Late Neolithic → Chalcolithic → EBA (5500–2200 BCE) settlement attributed to Late Neolithic → Chalcolithic → EBA…
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Late Neolithic through Middle Elamite (c.6800–2000 BCE); Archaic Susiana, Middle Susiana, Uruk, Susa II, Elamite · Susiana (Archaic–Middle) → Uruk–Susa II (Proto-Elamite) → Elamite (Susa III)
Susiana proto-literate tell (c.4400–3100 BCE) with early seals and Burnt Building — Delougaz/Kantor type-site for Susa plain (20 ha).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Neolithic through Middle Bronze (5800–1500 BCE) · Erzurum Neolithic → Chalcolithic Karasau → EBA Kura-Araxes (Karaz)
Güzelova Höyük (Karasu Valley Mound) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Erzurum Province, Aşkale District, Karasu (Euphrates) valley, Turkey — Karasu/Euphrates headwater village documenting…
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Late Chalcolithic Bakun phase (c.4800–4000 BCE); Ubaid-related Bakun painted ware · Bakun (Fars Chalcolithic) with Ubaid–Susiana ties and early Elamite precursor
Bakun painted Chalcolithic capital (c.4800–4000 BCE) with 20-room admin complex and seals — Marvdasht chiefdom precursor (Persepolis 7 km).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
Predynastic → Old Kingdom Delta-Sinai gateway (3500–2200 BCE) · Predynastic → Old Kingdom Delta-Sinai gateway (3500–2200 BCE)
Tell el-Murra in North Sinai / Eastern Delta, near Qantara East, Egypt is a Predynastic → Old Kingdom Delta-Sinai gateway (3500–2200 BCE) settlement attributed to Predynastic → Old Kingdom…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze Age through Ummayad Abbasid (c.3000 BCE–750 CE); EBA, MBA, Assyrian, Roman, Islamic · EBA → Assyrian Bit-Adini → Aramaean → Hellenistic-Roman Carrhae → Ummayad Islamic
Bibliographic Harran tell — EBA to Ummayad capital of moon-god Sin (Haran) under medieval beehive city (c.3000 BCE–750 CE).
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Middle Neolithic through Eneolithic (Boian → Vădastra → Gumelnița) · Boian → Vădastra → Gumelnița
Vădastra Tell (Vădastra Type-Site Terrace) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Olt County, Vădastra Commune, Danube terrace, Oltenia plain, Romania — Vădastra eponymous type-site — stratified…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Neolithic → Halaf → Northern Ubaid (6200–4800 BCE) · Halaf-Ubaid transitional (North Mesopotamian painted pottery)
Halaf mega-village (5800–5400 BCE, 20 ha) — largest Halaf site with Death Pit feasting/cannibalism horizon.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
Old Kingdom → First Intermediate → Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old Kingdom → First Intermediate → Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE)
Kom el-Hisn in Beheira Governorate, Western Delta, Khatatba, Egypt is a Old Kingdom → First Intermediate → Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) settlement attributed to Old Kingdom → First Intermediate →…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
EB IV desert New Town (2400–2000 BCE) · Eblaic-Early Bronze steppe urban experiment
Tell al-Rawda in Hama Governorate, Syrian steppe, Rawda plain, Syria is a EB IV desert New Town (2400–2000 BCE) settlement attributed to Eblaic-Early Bronze steppe urban experiment culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Hittite Old Kingdom through Empire (1600–1180 BCE) · Hittite (Hatti)
Ortaköy-Sapinuwa (Hittite Administrative Quarter) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Çorum Province, Ortaköy District, Çekerek valley, Turkey — Hittite administrative and military-ritual city…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Neolithic → EB → MBA Qarqur → Iron → Classical (8000 BCE–1400 CE) · Neolithic → EB → MBA Qarqur → Iron → Classical (8000 BCE–1400 CE)
Tell Qarqur in Hama Governorate, Orontes, Ghab Valley, Syria is a Neolithic → EB → MBA Qarqur → Iron → Classical (8000 BCE–1400 CE) settlement attributed to Neolithic → EB → MBA Qarqur → Iron →…
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Chalcolithic through Ottoman; EBA III, MB–LB Canaanite, Iron I–II Philistine/Judahite, Crusader–Mamluk · EBA Canaanite → Philistine Pentapolis (Sea Peoples) → Judahite fortress → Crusader
40 ha Philistine pentapolis capital — EBA to Crusader tell with Gath Siege Trench and Goliath inscription (c.5000 BCE–present).
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Middle Bronze Age through Crusader (c.2000 BCE–640 CE); MB Canaanite → Phoenician (Siky) → Assyrian province → Persian–Hellenistic Phoenician Dor · MB Canaanite → Iron I Siky/Phoenician → Phoenician (Tyre) → Perso-Phoenician province → Hellenistic
Phoenician purple-dye port (c.2000 BCE–640 CE) — 20 ha Carmel headland tell with Iron I Wenamun harbour and mole (Stern).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze through Iron Age (EBA, Mitanni, Aramaean Arpad, Neo-Assyrian) · EB → Hurrian → Aramaean Bit-Agusi → Assyrian
Tell Rifa'at (Arpad / Arpad of Bit-Agusi) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Aleppo Governorate, az-Zahra plain, north of Aleppo, Syria — Aramaean Bit-Agusi kingdom capital — rival to Samʾal…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Chalcolithic through Iron Age (Chalcolithic, MBA, LBA Kizzuwatna, Iron) · Cilician → Kizzuwatna/Hittite → Neo-Assyrian
Tatarlı Höyük (Ceyhan Plain Cilician Mound) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Adana Province, Ceyhan District, Ceyhan River plain, Turkey — Cilician plain gateway controlling Ceyhan crossing…
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Late Bronze Age through Iron Age II (c.1550–732 BCE); LB Canaanite, Iron I–II Israelite/Aramaean, Assyrian · LB Canaanite (Rehov/Sharuhen?) → Iron I Israelite → Israelite–Aramaean contested city
Beth Shean Valley’s largest mound (10 ha) with 10th-c. apiary (30 hives) and Iron I–II Rehov — Shoshenq anchor (1200–732 BCE).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
EB → MBA → LBA Gibala (Ugarit port) → Iron · Levantine coastal → Ugaritic (Gibala) → Iron Phoenician
Tell Tweini (Gibala) in Latakia Governorate, Jableh Plain, near coast, Syria is a EB → MBA → LBA Gibala (Ugarit port) → Iron settlement attributed to Levantine coastal → Ugaritic (Gibala) → Iron…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze through Iron Age · Hattian/EBA → Assyrian Colony → Hittite → Phrygian
Eskiyapar Höyük (Eskiyapar / Alaca Ridge) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Çorum Province, Alaca District, Alaca plain, Turkey — Karum-period trade town and Hittite road station linking…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Halaf → Ubaid → Uruk → EJ II–III → Akkadian → Mitanni · Halaf → Ubaid → Uruk → EJ II–III → Akkadian → Mitanni
Tell Arbid in Al-Hasakah Governorate, Khabur triangle near Amuda, Syria is a Halaf → Ubaid → Uruk → EJ II–III → Akkadian → Mitanni settlement attributed to Halaf → Ubaid → Uruk → EJ II–III → Akkadian…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell
Classic to Epiclassic Chalchihuites (c.300–900 CE); Classic Suchil 300–500 CE, Alta Vista phase 600–800 CE · Chalchihuites (Suchil–Canutillo–Alta Vista) frontier mining–agricultural with Sierra Madre turquoise
Chalchihuites cinnabar–turquoise mining village (c.300–900 CE) with pyramid and ore roasting pits supplying Pueblo Bonito turquoise.
