🇸🇾 Syria · Buried city
Ridge-Scar Buried Settlement
Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age
Ridge-Scar Buried Settlement in Homs Governorate, Syria is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) buried city attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.
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🇸🇾 Syria · Buried city
Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age
Ridge-Scar Buried Settlement in Homs Governorate, Syria is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) buried city attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Rock-cut
Bronze to Iron Age (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Rock-cut tradition
Qatna — Royal Hypogeum Antechamber East in Homs, Tell Mishrifeh, Qatna, Syria is a Bronze to Iron Age (2000 BCE–300 CE) rock_cut attributed to Rock-cut tra…
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Early Bronze Age (EB I–II, c. 3000–2500 BCE) · Euphrates Early Bronze, Kranzhügel culture precursor
Tell on Euphrates terrace south of Carchemish, excavated by Algaze and Breunig as part of Euphrates salvage, revealing Early Bronze planned town with orthogonal streets, temple on high terrace and…
🇸🇾 Syria · Archaeological wonder
Crusader to Mamluk (11th c Kurdish fort; Hospitaller 1142–1271; Mamluk after 1271) · Kurdish / Frankish (Hospitaller) / Mamluk
Paradigmatic concentric Crusader castle, Krak des Chevaliers was built by Kurdish emir and expanded by Knights Hospitaller 1142–1271.
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Late Chalcolithic to Bronze Age, c.3500–2300 BCE · Uruk / Nagar (Hurrian)
Northern high mound at Tell Brak — Eye Temple platform (Late Chalcolithic, c.3500–3300 BCE) and later Nagar palace high mound (c.2500 BCE).
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Early Dynastic III, c.2600–2350 BCE · Kish civilization / Nagar
Acropolis temple staircase at Tell Beydar (ancient Nabada, c.2600–2350 BCE, Early Dynastic).
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Early Dynastic to Late 3rd Millennium, c.3000–2200 BCE · Early Dynastic Sumerian (Khabur)
Kleine Antentempel and Steinbau 1 high terrace at Tell Chuera (ancient Harran? c.3000–2200 BCE, Early Dynastic).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
PPNA to PPNB (c.9600–8000 BCE) · PPNA → PPNB (Euphrates Neolithic)
PPNA-PPNB village (9600–8000 BCE) with lime-plaster houses on Euphrates Tishrin plain.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Ubaid to Early Bronze (c.5000–2200 BCE; EB II centre) · Ubaid → Uruk → Early Bronze Euphrates / Carchemish periphery
Euphrates ford town (5000–2200 BCE) with EB II wall 5 km south of Carchemish.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Ubaid to Uruk (c.5500–3200 BCE; Uruk station c.3700–3200 BCE) · Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic Uruk expansion
Northernmost Uruk station (3700–3200 BCE) on Upper Euphrates with tripartite compound north of Raqqa.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze to Middle Bronze (c.3000–1500 BCE) · EB Euphrates urban → Middle Bronze Amorite
Euphrates terrace walled city (3000–1500 BCE) in Hadidi bend, now under Lake Assad.
🇸🇾 Syria · Buried city
Period Bronze Age · Regional culture Buried-Variant
Hillfort Rampart Buried 19 — Syria Region 7 in Syria Region 7, Syria is a Bronze Age buried-city with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇸🇾 Syria · Buried city
Period Neolithic · Regional culture Buried-Variant
Temple Terrace Buried 61 — Syria Region 1 in Syria Region 1, Syria is a Bronze Age buried-city with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇸🇾 Syria · Buried city
Period Iron Age · Regional culture Buried-Variant
Mural Hall Buried 54 — Syria Region 6 in Syria Region 6, Syria is a Bronze Age buried-city 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.
🇸🇾 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.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze to Old Babylonian (2600–1700 BCE) · Amorite (Shubat-Enlil)
Weiss excavations 1979–, 4.2 ka BP abrupt arid collapse 2200 BCE evidence and Shamshi-Adad 1800 BCE correspondence.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze to Mitanni (2500–1300 BCE) · Hurrian / Mitanni (Khabur Ware)
Khabur tell excavated by Polish-Syrian 1936 and Bieliński 1996–, Khabur Ware pottery hallmark and equid figurines.
