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Mounds made of layer upon layer of settlement.
🇮🇷 Iran · Pyramid
Old Babylonian to Kassite (Middle Bronze) · Kassite / Highland Zagros
Zagros highland ziggurat at Choga Gavaneh c.1800 BCE — 60 m square mudbrick platform 15 m high with Kassite pottery linking Babylonia to Sialk highland line.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Neolithic 2100–1600 → Chalcolithic 1600–1000 BCE · South Bihar Neolithic — Taradih facies (Magadha Neolithic)
Taradih Bihar Neolithic Settlement — Neolithic settlement (2100–1000 BCE) 3 km south Bodh Gaya on Falgu River, excavated 1991–94 by A.K. Prasad (Magadha University, Bodh Gaya Circle).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
Third Intermediate (21st–22nd Dynasty) capital; Late Period · 21st Dynasty Tanite → Libyan 22nd Dynasty → Saite → Greek
Delta Third Intermediate capital (177 ha) built entirely from Pi-Ramesses spolia — 21st dynasty walled city with intact royal gold burials, biblical Zoan.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Ebla Palace G West Wing in Idlib, Tell Mardikh, Syria is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
EB IV to Byzantine (c.2400 BCE–600 CE; peak Iron II) · Eblaite → Amorite → Hittite/Mitanni → Neo-Hittite/Aramaean
Aramaean Hatarikka with alphabetic stele and Iron Age gate sphinxes atop 28 ha tell near Idlib.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Late Uruk to Early Dynastic I–II (3500–2500 BCE) · North Mesopotamian Uruk → Early Bronze (EJ 1–2)
Euphrates levee town with Uruk planned lower town and EB fortification beside Habuba.
🇷🇴 Romania · Ancient city
Eneolithic Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5200–3500 BCE) · Precucuteni–Cucuteni (Western Cucuteni-Trypillia)
Cucuteni (Cucuteni-Cetățuia) — eponymous promontory type site of Cucuteni-Trypillia culture discovered 1884 by N. Beldiceanu on Dealul Gosan above Cucuteni village, 30 km west Iași.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Ghassulian Chalcolithic (4700–3800 BCE) · Ghassulian Chalcolithic (4700–3800 BCE)
Teleilat Ghassul in Balqa Governorate, Jordan Valley, Dead Sea N, Jordan is a Ghassulian Chalcolithic (4700–3800 BCE) settlement attributed to Ghassulian Chalcolithic (4700–3800 BCE) culture.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Gumelniţa (4500–4000 BCE) · Gumelniţa (4500–4000 BCE)
Pietrele Tell in Teleorman / Giurgiu region, Danube plain, Pietrele village, Romania is a Gumelniţa (4500–4000 BCE) settlement attributed to Gumelniţa (4500–4000 BCE) culture.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Samarra through Ubaid 3 (c.5500–4100 BCE); Samarra, Hajji Muhammad, Ubaid 3 · Samarra (Choga Mami) → Hajji Muhammad → Ubaid 3 Hamrin facies
Samarra–Ubaid transition village (c.5500–4100 BCE) with tripartite houses and Iran–south assimilation — Hamrin Samarra outpost.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city
Natufian to Byzantine (c. 10000 BCE – 749 CE) · Natufian / Chalcolithic / Canaanite / Hellenistic Decapolis / Roman / Byzantine
Decapolis wadi harbour city – revetment 30 m at –1 m in Wadi Jirm below escarpment terraces.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Middle Bronze Age to Late Antiquity (c.1800 BCE–300 CE), peak Assyrian 800–600 BCE · Mitanni → Middle/Neo-Assyrian → Parthian
Lower Khabur Assyrian capital 55 ha (600 tablets, Red House archive, canal) 70 km NE Deir ez-Zor.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5500–3500 BCE) · Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5500–3500 BCE)
Trușești in Botoșani County, Trușești, Jijia Plain, Romania is a Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5500–3500 BCE) settlement attributed to Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5500–3500 BCE) culture.
🇨🇱 Chile · Ancient village
Formative (500 BCE – 400 CE) · Atacameño (Likan Antai)
Tulor Village in Antofagasta, Chile is a Formative (500 BCE – 400 CE) ancient village attributed to Atacameño (Likan Antai) culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
PPNB → PPNC → Yarmoukian · Levantine PPNB/Yarmoukian
Mega-village (7250–5000 BCE) covering 15 ha, one of the largest Pre-Pottery to Pottery Neolithic sites in the Near East.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Middle Chalcolithic (Ubaid-related Late Chalcolithic 5500–4000 BCE window) · Central Anatolian Chalcolithic (Aksaray-Melendiz)
Middle Chalcolithic rocky citadel (5200–4800 BCE) — fortified island town on Melendiz obsidian route, Gülçur type-site.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Late Bronze Age through Iron Age II (c.1550–586 BCE); LB temple, Iron I Philistine, Judahite 10th–7th c. · LB Canaanite → Iron I Philistine → Iron II Judahite frontier town
Biblical Timnah (Samson) — 5 ha Philistine–Judahite border town with Iron II casemate and olive press quarter (1550–586 BCE).
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
EB I–IV walled town (3300–2100 BCE) · EB I–IV walled town (3300–2100 BCE)
Bab edh-Dhra in Karak Governorate, Wadi Araba, Dead Sea SE, Jordan is a EB I–IV walled town (3300–2100 BCE) settlement attributed to EB I–IV walled town (3300–2100 BCE) culture.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Chalcolithic Ahar-Banas 3000–1700 BCE · Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic — Mewar Plain Banas Basin
Gilund Modiya Magara Mound — largest Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic settlement (3000–1700 BCE) in Banas Basin, locally Modiya Magari (bald mound), 25×18 ha dual mound excavated 1959–60 by B.B.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
PPNA → early PPNB (9600–8700 cal BCE) · PPNA Tigris (Karul Upper Tigris Neolithic)
PPNA lakeside village (9600–9300 BCE) — rectangular pisè houses on Gusir sinkhole lake, progenitor cultivation bridge Göbekli→Çayönü.
🇷🇸 Serbia · Tell
Vinča C–D → Bubanj (5400–4500 BCE) · Vinča C–D → Bubanj (5400–4500 BCE)
Medvednjak in Šumadija District, Smederevska Palanka, Jasenica Valley, Serbia is a Vinča C–D → Bubanj (5400–4500 BCE) settlement attributed to Vinča C–D → Bubanj (5400–4500 BCE) culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Pre-Classic to Classic Hohokam (700–1300 CE) · Hohokam Pre-Classic (Colonial) → Classic Sedentary
Las Colinas Tempe Hohokam Village is the canal-lattice village at the Agua Fria–Salt River confluence west of Tempe — a Sedentary Colonial-to-Sedentary (700–1300 CE) Hohokam canal village before…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Late Neolithic through Byzantine–Islamic (c.5500 BCE–749 CE); Neolithic, EBA–MB–LB, Iron I–II, Hellenistic–Roman–Byzantine · Neolithic → Canaanite (MBA–LBA) → Iron Ammonite → Decapolis Hellenistic–Roman → Byzantine → Early Islamic
Jordan Valley gateway — MBA Canaanite town to Decapolis Pella (6000-yr, 10 ha + 30 ha lower city) with 635 CE Yarmuk layer.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Early Village to Islamic (6000 BCE–1000 CE; peaks Ubaid–Uruk and Old Elamite) · Deh Luran Village → Ubaid → Uruk → Proto-Elamite → Elamite → Islamic
Deh Luran's largest tell (15.5 ha) with 6000 BCE-to-Elamite sequence and Amorite seal.
