🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Tell Yelkhi — Diyala Census Mound
Early Dynastic III to Akkadian (2600–2200 BCE) · Sumerian–Akkadian, Eshnunna sphere
Small but archive-rich Hamrin tell salvaged before dam, excavated by Japanese Mission (Fujii).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Bakla Tepe
EBA (c.3000-2000 BCE) · Western Anatolian EBA (Troy I-II, Yortan sphere)
Bakla Tepe — buried eba tell/village at İzmir Province.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Kfar HaHoresh
Middle PPNB · PPNB cult complex
PPNB cult and mortuary center (7500–6650 BCE) in the Nazareth hills, not a normal village but a regional feasting and secondary-burial site serving surrounding settlements.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Acharneh
Early Bronze Age to Hellenistic (c.3000–300 BCE) · Syrian EBA → Aramaean → Neo-Hittite fringe
Ghāb Orontes fortress tell 12 ha (EB glacis, Iron Age Aramaean town Tunip/Qarqar) in Ghāb swamp.
🇲🇱 Mali · Ancient city
Djenné-Djeno
Bio. Iron Age to Medieval (c.250 BCE–1400 CE; peak 400–1200 CE) · Djenné-Djeno culture / Inland Niger Delta Iron Age / Soninke-Bozo
Oldest sub-Saharan city (250 BCE–1400 CE) on Inland Niger Delta: 33 ha tell 8 m high with 69 mounds cluster spanning 4 km, without stone architecture but rich bio-archaeological sequence: slag, rice,…
🇸🇾 Syria · Temple complex
Tell Ain Dara
Late Bronze – Iron Age II (Syro-Hittite) · Hittite – Syro-Hittite (Aramaean)
Syro-Hittite temple (1300–740 BCE) with 1-m footprints and sphinxes — Solomon's Temple parallel, destroyed 2018.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Ulucak Höyük
Neolithic–Early Bronze (6850–3000 BCE) · Aegean Neolithic
Neolithic–Early Bronze (6850–3000 BCE) Aegean Neolithic tell at Izmir Province, Kemalpaşa – longest continuous aegean neolithic sequence (dims Mound 15 m high, levels I–IVb over 45 building horizons).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Kashkashok III
Ubaid–Uruk (5200–3100 BCE) · Ubaid – Uruk
Ubaid–Uruk (5200–3100 BCE) Ubaid – Uruk tell at Al-Hasakah Governorate, Khabur tributary – ubaid–uruk village on khabur tributary (dims Mound 2 ha, 6 m Ubaid–Uruk).
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Tell Deir Alla (Pethor/Succoth)
Chalcolithic-Iron Age (c.5000-600 BCE) · Levantine EBA to Iron Age (Jordan Valley)
Tell Deir Alla (Pethor/Succoth) — buried chalcolithic-iron tell/village at Balqa Governorate.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Megiddo
Chalcolithic to Iron Age / Persian · Canaanite → Egyptian → Israelite
Strategic tell commanding Via Maris (Egypt-Mesopotamia road) through Jezreel, occupied 7000 BCE–586 BCE with 26 strata, Thutmosis III 1457 BCE battle (first battle in recorded history), Canaanite…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Menteşe Höyük
Neolithic (6400–6000 BCE, Fikirtepe) · Marmara Neolithic
Neolithic (6400–6000 BCE, Fikirtepe) Marmara Neolithic tell at Bursa Province, Iznik Basin – fikirtepe hamlet on former lake terrace (dims Mound 120 m diam, 4 m Fikirtepe deposits).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Baiqa
Early Bronze (3000–2200 BCE) · EB South Levantine (Ghouta)
Early Bronze (3000–2200 BCE) EB South Levantine (Ghouta) tell at Damascus Basin, Ghouta fringe – eb walled town on damascus oasis fringe (dims Mound 8 ha, wall 8 m thick).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Keşan Höyük
Middle–Late Bronze (2000–1200 BCE) · Thracian Bronze Age
Middle–Late Bronze (2000–1200 BCE) Thracian Bronze Age tell at Edirne Province, Thrace – thracian bronze age mound on thracian plain (dims Mound 6 m high, Bronze deposits with Troy imports).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Kumtepe
EBA (c.3000-2000 BCE) · Western Anatolian EBA (Troy I-II, Yortan sphere)
Kumtepe — buried eba tell/village at Çanakkale Province.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Lachish
Early Bronze to Babylonian destruction 587 BCE · Canaanite → Israelite/Judahite
Major Canaanite city-state and Judahite fortress second only to Jerusalem (Joshua, Hezekiah, Sennacherib's 701 BCE reliefs at British Museum).
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Trușești Cucuteni Settlement on the Jijia
Precucuteni to Horodiștea, peak Cucuteni A–B (4800–3800 BCE) · Cucuteni–Trypillia
One of Moldova's largest Cucuteni tells — Țuguieta mound 9 m stratigraphy (Precucuteni III to Cucuteni B1, Horodiștea) at Trușești, excavated by M. Petrescu-Dîmbovița 1951–61.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Bderi
Late Bronze to Neo-Assyrian (c.1600–600 BCE) · Mitanni Hurrian → Middle Assyrian
Stratified 7-m Khabur village documenting Mitanni–Assyrian agrarian collapse and recovery; Pfälzner exposed Mitanni granary with barley, then Middle Assyrian canal-side settlement with large storage…
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Tell Kazane — Euphrates Terrace Town Mound
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…
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Ashkelon
Early Bronze to Crusader 1191 CE · Canaanite → Philistine → Phoenician → Roman
Five-period tells (Canaanite vaulted mudbrick gate — oldest arch in the world c.1850 BCE, 4 m high; Philistine emporium of titans with 15,000 sq m market; Phoenician Tyrian-purple, Greek, Roman,…
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Tal-e Atashi
Late 5th millennium BCE · Kerman Chalcolithic
Late 5th millennium BCE Kerman Chalcolithic tell at Kerman Province, Bam plain – chalcolithic village near bam with mudbrick houses (dims Mound 3 ha, 6 m Chalcolithic).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell el-Fekheriye (Sikkan / Washukanni?)
Middle Bronze to neo-Assyrian (c.2000 BCE–700 BCE), peak Middle Assyrian · Mitanni Washukanni? / Sikkan Assyrian
Spring-resurgent mound with 1.5-m deep Middle Assyrian level and 9th-c. bilingual Old Aramaic–Old Assyrian Hadad statue inscription (stated first to transcribe Akkadian into Aramaic).
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Ziggurat Mound of Tell al-Hiba (Lagash — Ibgal)
Early Dynastic to Ur III · Sumerian (Lagash dynasty)
Early Dynastic temple platform ziggurat Ibgal of Inanna at Lagash (Tell al-Hiba) — 40×30 m platform c.2500 BCE, precursor to classic Ur ziggurat.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Karahöyük (Elbistan)
Early Bronze Age to Medieval (peak MBA–Hittite–Iron) · EB Anatolian → Hittite → Neo-Hittite/Tabal → Armenian Medieval
Large Elbistan Plain mound (300 × 250 m, 22 m high) dominating the Ceyhan headwaters, second only to Tilmen in the plain...
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Lagash
Jemdet Nasr to Ur III / Old Babylonian · Sumerian
Sumerian city-state Lagash (Tell al-Hiba proper) and its religious capital Girsu (Tello, 25 km SE) — often conflated as Lagash-Girsu.