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Tepe Hissar Burned Building Annex West — Northern Annex — Wikipedia

Wikipedia Contributors · 2024 · Wikimedia Foundation

Encyclopedic entry — coordinates and heritage listing

Tepe Hissar Burned Building Annex West — Northern Annex

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2024Open source

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Tepe Hissar Burned Building Annex West — Southern Extension — Wikipedia

Wikipedia Contributors · 2024 · Wikimedia Foundation

Encyclopedic entry — coordinates and heritage listing

Tepe Hissar Burned Building Annex West — Southern Extension

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2024Open source

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Tepe Hissar Burned Building Annex West — Western Terrace — Wikipedia

Wikipedia Contributors · 2024 · Wikimedia Foundation

Encyclopedic entry — coordinates and heritage listing

Tepe Hissar Burned Building Annex West — Western Terrace

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2024Open source

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Tepe Hissar Burned Building Annex West — Wikipedia

Wikipedia Contributors · 2024 · Wikimedia Foundation

Encyclopedic entry — coordinates and heritage listing

Tepe Hissar Burned Building Annex West

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2024Open source

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Tepe Sialk Necropolis B Extension South — Eastern Outlier — Wikipedia

Wikipedia Contributors · 2024 · Wikimedia Foundation

Encyclopedic entry — coordinates and heritage listing

Tepe Sialk Necropolis B Extension South — Eastern Outlier

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2024Open source

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Tepe Sialk Necropolis B Extension South — Southern Extension — Wikipedia

Wikipedia Contributors · 2024 · Wikimedia Foundation

Encyclopedic entry — coordinates and heritage listing

Tepe Sialk Necropolis B Extension South — Southern Extension

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2024Open source

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Tepe Sialk Necropolis B Extension South — Western Terrace — Wikipedia

Wikipedia Contributors · 2024 · Wikimedia Foundation

Encyclopedic entry — coordinates and heritage listing

Tepe Sialk Necropolis B Extension South — Western Terrace

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2024Open source

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Uruk Anu Ziggurat Terrace North Annex — Eastern Outlier — Wikipedia

Wikipedia Contributors · 2024 · Wikimedia Foundation

Encyclopedic entry — coordinates and heritage listing

Uruk Anu Ziggurat Terrace North Annex — Eastern Outlier

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2024Open source

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Uruk Anu Ziggurat Terrace North Annex — Northern Annex — Wikipedia

Wikipedia Contributors · 2024 · Wikimedia Foundation

Encyclopedic entry — coordinates and heritage listing

Uruk Anu Ziggurat Terrace North Annex — Northern Annex

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2024Open source

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Uruk Anu Ziggurat Terrace North Annex — Southern Extension — Wikipedia

Wikipedia Contributors · 2024 · Wikimedia Foundation

Encyclopedic entry — coordinates and heritage listing

Uruk Anu Ziggurat Terrace North Annex — Southern Extension

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2024Open source

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Uruk Anu Ziggurat Terrace North Annex — Western Terrace — Wikipedia

Wikipedia Contributors · 2024 · Wikimedia Foundation

Encyclopedic entry — coordinates and heritage listing

Uruk Anu Ziggurat Terrace North Annex — Western Terrace

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2024Open source

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Uruk Anu Ziggurat Terrace North Annex — Wikipedia

Wikipedia Contributors · 2024 · Wikimedia Foundation

Encyclopedic entry — coordinates and heritage listing

Uruk Anu Ziggurat Terrace North Annex

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2024Open source

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Eridu Temple Platform South Mound Annex — Archaeological Overview and Cultural Context

A. Smith, B. Jones · 2021 · Antiquity

Overview of Eridu Temple Platform South Mound Annex Ubaid Period (6500-3800 BCE) temple-complex

Eridu Temple Platform South Mound Annex

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2021Open source

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Eridu Temple Platform South Mound Annex — Eastern Outlier — Archaeological Overview and Cultural Context

A. Smith, B. Jones · 2021 · Antiquity

Overview of Eridu Temple Platform South Mound Annex — Eastern Outlier Ubaid Period (6500-3800 BCE) temple-complex

Eridu Temple Platform South Mound Annex — Eastern Outlier

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2021Open source

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Eridu Temple Platform South Mound Annex — Northern Annex — Archaeological Overview and Cultural Context

A. Smith, B. Jones · 2021 · Antiquity

Overview of Eridu Temple Platform South Mound Annex — Northern Annex Ubaid Period (6500-3800 BCE) temple-complex

Eridu Temple Platform South Mound Annex — Northern Annex

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2021Open source

Articledoi.org

Eridu Temple Platform South Mound Annex — Southern Extension — Archaeological Overview and Cultural Context

A. Smith, B. Jones · 2021 · Antiquity

Overview of Eridu Temple Platform South Mound Annex — Southern Extension Ubaid Period (6500-3800 BCE) temple-complex

Eridu Temple Platform South Mound Annex — Southern Extension

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2021Open source

Articledoi.org

Eridu Temple Platform South Mound Annex — Western Terrace — Archaeological Overview and Cultural Context

A. Smith, B. Jones · 2021 · Antiquity

Overview of Eridu Temple Platform South Mound Annex — Western Terrace Ubaid Period (6500-3800 BCE) temple-complex

Eridu Temple Platform South Mound Annex — Western Terrace

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2021Open source

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Tell Beydar Temple A Annex Courtyard — Archaeological Overview and Cultural Context

A. Smith, B. Jones · 2021 · Antiquity

Overview of Tell Beydar Temple A Annex Courtyard Early Bronze Age (3000-2300 BCE) temple-complex

Tell Beydar Temple A Annex Courtyard

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2021Open source

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Tell Beydar Temple A Annex Courtyard — Northern Annex — Archaeological Overview and Cultural Context

A. Smith, B. Jones · 2021 · Antiquity

Overview of Tell Beydar Temple A Annex Courtyard — Northern Annex Early Bronze Age (3000-2300 BCE) temple-complex

Tell Beydar Temple A Annex Courtyard — Northern Annex

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2021Open source

Articledoi.org

Tell Brak Eye Temple Outlier Sector — Archaeological Overview and Cultural Context

A. Smith, B. Jones · 2021 · Antiquity

Overview of Tell Brak Eye Temple Outlier Sector Late Chalcolithic (4000-3200 BCE) temple-complex

Tell Brak Eye Temple Outlier Sector

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2021Open source

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