🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
Tell el-Muqdam South Suburb (Leontopolis South)
Hyksos to Saite-Persian (1700–343 BCE) · Hyksos / Egyptian (Leontopolite nome)
Hyksos-to-Saite suburb 600m south of Leontopolis with lion statues.
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🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
Hyksos to Saite-Persian (1700–343 BCE) · Hyksos / Egyptian (Leontopolite nome)
Hyksos-to-Saite suburb 600m south of Leontopolis with lion statues.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Early Bronze Age to Hellenistic (3500–150 BCE) · Canaanite / Phoenician / Assyrian
Tel Keisan — Acco Plain in Galilee coastal plain, Israel is a Early Bronze Age to Hellenistic (3500–150 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite / Phoenician / Assyrian.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Hassuna–Samarra (6000–5000 BCE) Samarra culture · Samarra culture (Tell Sawwan)
Tell es-Sawwan — Samarra Bowl Village in Salah ad-Din, Iraq is a Hassuna–Samarra (6000–5000 BCE) Samarra culture tell attributed to Samarra culture (Tell Sawwan).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Bronze Age
River Cut Section West in Susiana, Iran is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) tell attributed to Bronze Age culture. Systematic survey and LiDAR document architectural phasing and stratified deposits.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Tell
Late Bronze to Early Iron (c.1500–500 BCE; Yaz I–III Iron 1200–500, Achaemenid Yaz III) · Margiana (BMAC) → Yaz I (Early Iron handmade) → Yaz II–III (Median–Achaemenid)
Yaz Depe in Murghab delta is type-site of Yaz I–III Iron culture (c.1200–500 BCE) — Early Iron fortified village with handmade painted Yaz ware, successor to BM...
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Iron Age (8300 BCE–600 BCE) · Neolithic / Canaanite
Tel Harod — Neolithic and Bronze Enclosures in Jezreel Valley, Israel is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Iron Age (8300 BCE–600 BCE) tell attributed to Neolithic / Canaanite.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Jezirah I–III (c.3000–2200 BCE) · Ninevite-5 → Early Dynastic Jezirah
30-ha EB town with nine-phase Ninevite-5 through ED III defensive wall, gate with corbel vault, “Animal House” kitchen with fauna scatters, eye-idol temple and Soviet-Polish plan 7 stratified ED…
🇷🇸 Serbia · Ancient village
Early Neolithic Starčevo-Körös-Criș · Starčevo (SE Neolithic)
Type-site of the Starčevo culture (6200–5400 BCE), the first Neolithic farmers to colonize Southeast Europe from Anatolia, bridging Anatolian Neolithic to Vinča and Linearbandkeramik.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Medieval
River Cut Section West in Delta, Egypt is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) tell attributed to Medieval culture. Systematic survey and LiDAR document architectural phasing and stratified deposits.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Late Bronze Age to Persian (1500–332 BCE) · Canaanite / Philistine / Phoenician
Tel Michal — Yarkon Estuary Palace in Central Coastal Plain, Israel is a Late Bronze Age to Persian (1500–332 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite / Philistine / Phoenician.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
MB II–LB I (c.1850–1550 BCE) · Canaanite MB II with Aegean influence → Phoenician
Palatial MB II Canaanite centre (32 ha) with Minoan-style painted plaster palace (c.1850–1550 BCE), excavated by Aharon...
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Iron Age
Pavement South in Tigris Plain, Iraq is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) tell attributed to Iron Age culture. Systematic survey and LiDAR document architectural phasing and stratified deposits.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Buried city
Early Bronze to Iron (3000–500 BCE) · Canaanite/Phoenician
Sidon — Buried College Site in South Governorate, Phoenician coast, Lebanon is a Early Bronze to Iron (3000–500 BCE) buried city attributed to Canaanite/Phoenician culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Ubaid–Early Jezirah III (c.5000–2300 BCE) · Ubaid → Ninevite-5
Trilogy Kashkashok I–III on Jaghjagh mid-reach: Ubaid hut with Samarra pre-contact, Late Chalcolithic double-temple mound, and ED II dense granaries with Halaf-to-Ninevite transition; Matsutani &…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early–Middle Bronze Age (c.2700–1600 BCE) · Syrian EBA–MBA (Qatna–Qadesh sphere)
Homs hinterland EB–MB tell 9 m high (MB glacis, Qatna corridor satellite) east of Qadesh.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Tell
Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan industrial (shell and bead)
Chanhu-Daro Eastern Industrial Terrace in Sindh, Pakistan is a Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) tell attributed to Harappan industrial (shell and bead).
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (8000–7000 BCE) · Zagros Neolithic (Bestansur–Jarmo)
Bestansur — Shahrizor Neolithic Tell in Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraq is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (8000–7000 BCE) tell attributed to Zagros Neolithic (Bestansur–Jarmo).
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Ubaid to Neo-Babylonian (4000–500 BCE) · Sumerian
Ur — Tell Muqayyar Diqdiqqah Residential in Dhi Qar Governorate, Euphrates, Iraq is a Ubaid to Neo-Babylonian (4000–500 BCE) ancient city attributed to Sumerian culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Late Natufian (c.12000–9600 BCE) · Natufian
Natufian open-air hamlet (c.12000–9600 BCE) at the Hula lake edge, excavated by Jean Perrot. Over 50 round semi-subterra...
🇮🇳 India · Tell
Hakra to Early Harappan (7000–2600 BCE) earliest claimed · Hakra–Kunal–Early Harappan
Bhirrana — Ghaggar-Hakra Earliest Harappan Type Mound in Haryana, India is a Hakra to Early Harappan (7000–2600 BCE) earliest claimed tell attributed to Hakra–Kunal–Early Harappan.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Uruk to Neo-Assyrian (4000–600 BCE) 66 ha · Uruk then Neo-Assyrian provincial
Tell al-Hawa — Mosul Steppe Center in Nineveh Governorate, Iraq is a Uruk to Neo-Assyrian (4000–600 BCE) 66 ha tell attributed to Uruk then Neo-Assyrian provincial.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (5000–2500 BCE) · Kerman Chalcolithic (Iblis)
Tal-i Iblis — Kerman Copper Workshop Tell in Kerman Province, Iran is a Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (5000–2500 BCE) tell attributed to Kerman Chalcolithic (Iblis).
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Isin-Larsa (2025–1763 BCE) · Sumerian/Amorite
Larsa — Tell Senkereh South Mound in Dhi Qar Governorate, southern plain, Iraq is a Isin-Larsa (2025–1763 BCE) ancient city attributed to Sumerian/Amorite culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Iron Age I (1200–1000 BCE) · Philistine
Tell Qasile — Philistine Port in Yarkon River, Israel is a Iron Age I (1200–1000 BCE) tell attributed to Philistine.