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Tell Munbaqa (Ekalte)
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.
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🇸🇾 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.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Hassuna–Halaf, Uruk, Middle Bronze (6000–1400 BCE) · Zagros–Mesopotamian interface
Mound on former confluence of Little Zab dammed by Dokan Lake, excavated 1957–59 by Danish Jarmo team (G. J.
🇸🇾 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 Shaykh Hassan — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Raqqa Governorate.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
EBA-MBA-LBA (c.3500-1200 BCE) · Euphrates EBA to Old Babylonian/Mitannian
Çavi Tarlası — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Şanlıurfa Province.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Early Dynastic to Old Babylonian (3000–1750 BCE) · Akkadian, Eshnunna, Babylonian
Provincial capital of Hamrin–Diyala corridor identified as Me-Turan, twin to Tell Haddad and Tell al-Sib excavated 1977–87 by Iraqi State Board before Hamrin Dam, yielding 3000 cuneiform tablets of…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Halaf, Ubaid (6100–5500 BCE) · Halaf culture
Low mound outside Mosul lending name to Late Halaf painted ware zenith, excavated 1933 by Max Mallowan and John Cruikshank Rose and 1976 by Ismail Hijara.
🇸🇾 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.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Temple complex
Late Uruk to Akkadian (c.3400–2200 BCE; temple peak ED II–III 2750–2350 BCE) · Uruk → Jemdet Nasr → Early Dynastic Sumerian (Diyala) → Akkadian
Oval Shara Temple with ED votive hoard and earliest saw-tooth niche architecture.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Chalcolithic (4800–3500 BCE, Cucuteni A–B) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Cucuteni A–B)
Hilltop tell Cetățuia at Cucuteni, Iași, eponym of Cucuteni culture (western Cucuteni-Trypillia), excavated 1884 by Teodor Burada and 1909–10 by Hubert Schmidt.
🇸🇾 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.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Old Hittite to Empire (1650–1200 BCE) · Hittite (Hattic substrate)
Old Hittite cult terrace that produced the four-register Inandik vase (acrobats and goddess).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
EBA-MBA-LBA (c.3500-1200 BCE) · Euphrates EBA to Old Babylonian/Mitannian
Hassek Höyük — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Şanlıurfa Province.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
PPNA to early PPNB (8600–7900 BCE) · PPNB Nemrik-Pre-Pottery Euphrates
PPNB T-pillar cult ridge — 8400 BCE terrazzo temple north bank (Hauptmann).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age (c.3500–2200 BCE) · Late Chalcolithic → Early Transcaucasian/Karabaz
Altınova EBA cemetery-village (c.3500–2200 BCE, 47 cist graves, Karaz ware) by Lake Keban.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Halaf to Ninevite V (5900–2600 BCE) · Halaf → Northern Ubaid → Uruk → Ninevite V
Tell Aqab Settlement Ridge is the Halaf–Ubaid–Uruk ridge on the Upper Khabur headwaters near Amuda — excavated by Davidson & McKerrell as the Halaf-Ubaid transition key in inland Syria.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Chalcolithic (Bakun, c.4000–3500 BCE) · Fars Chalcolithic Bakun culture
Marv Dasht Bakun twin mounds (c.4000–3500 BCE, painted Bakun ware, sealings, pillared hall) 3 km S Persepolis.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Halaf → Northern Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic → EBA (6200–3000 BCE) · Halaf-Ubaid → Uruk fringe
Halaf-Ubaid village (6200–5000 BCE) — 3 ha Euphrates hamlet, Pollock Birecik Dam salvage.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Neolithic → EBA → MBA Karum → LBA → Iron → Medieval (6000 BCE–1500 CE) · Halaf → Euphrates EBA → Assyrian Karum → Mitanni/Hittite
Euphrates peninsula tell (Neolithic–Medieval) — 12 m double mound with Karum tablets, Hauptmann salvage.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Tell
Chalcolithic (5500–3500 BCE, Trypillia A–CI) · Cucuteni-Trypillia
Eponymous type site of the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture, excavated 1893 by Vikentiy Khvoika (Chvojka) on the Dnieper near Kyiv.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Ubaid to Ur III (c.5500–2000 BCE; temple sequence defines Chalcolithic Eridu–Ubaid horizon) · Ubaid → Uruk → Early Dynastic → Ur III
Type-site of Ubaid period — 1919 Ninhursag temple with copper bulls gave Chalcolithic its name.
🇬🇷 Greece · Tell
Late Neolithic-Chalcolithic-EBA (c.6000-2500 BCE) · Balkan Chalcolithic-EBA (Gumelnița-Karanovo–Vinča)
Dikili Tash — buried late tell/village at Eastern Macedonia.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
EB → MBA → LBA → Iron Age → Hellenistic (3000–100 BCE) · Euphratean → Hittite → Neo-Hittite/Assyrian
Euphrates tell (EB–Iron, Hittite-Assyrian) — 18 m island mound, Atatürk Dam salvage type-site.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Neolithic to Neo-Assyrian (Ubaid → Assyrian) · Halaf-Ubaid → Uruk → Karaz → Hurrian-Mitanni → Assyrian
Bismil Tigris tell (5500 BCE through Iron) with Ubaid→Assyrian 4 m graded sequence — long agrarian continuity through 5.2 and 4.2kya arid events.