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🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze (3100–2300 BCE) · EB Syrian (Early Dynastic contemporary) → Mortuary complex
Tell Banat White Monument South is the southern suburb below the White Monument — a 20-m-high stepped earthen mortuary mound (100 m diam) south of Tell Banat cluster on the Euphrates.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Late Chalcolithic Late Uruk (3800–3100 BCE) · Late Uruk (South Mesopotamian colony)
Tell Habuba Kabira South Mound is the 10-ha southern colony mound of Habuba Kabira — the largest Late Uruk urban transplant outside Sumer (22 ha gridded walled city).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Chalcolithic to Middle Bronze (5000 BCE–1700 BCE) · Hassuna → Halaf → Ninevite V → Akkadian → Habur → Shubat-Enlil (Assyrian)
Tell Leilan (Shubat-Enlil) Satellite Mound is the 8.5-ha outer suburb 1.2 km southwest of Tell Leilan — capital of Shamshi-Adad I's Kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia (Shubat-Enlil, 1800 BCE).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Chalcolithic through Iron III; EB-MBA peak · Syrian EBA → Amorite → Mitanni/Hittite → Aramaean Luash
Idlib tell (26 ha) with Neolithic–Iron III sequence, MBA walls and Iron Temple of the Luash dynasty — findspot of Zakkur Stele, Hittite-period storage horizon.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze to Iron (3000 BCE–700 BCE) · EBA Syrian → Mittani → Hittite → Iron Age Neo-Hittite
Tell Hadidi Northern Fortification is the north casemate wall-tower line of Tell Hadidi (Azu) — the Late Bronze city Azu across the Euphrates from Tell es-Sweyhat.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Late Chalcolithic to Mitanni (4000 BCE–1300 BCE) · Late Chalcolithic → Ninevite V → Hurrian Akkadian → Mittani (Hurrian Urkesh)
Tell Mozan (Urkesh) Satellite Mound is the 6.2-ha southern suburb 800 m south of Tell Mozan — the Hurrian capital Urkesh, city of Kumarbi at the Taurus piedmont.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Late Neolithic (Halaf–Hassuna), c.6200-5800 BCE (Neolithic, burn layer) · Halaf
Tell Sabi Abyad Balikh Valley (Raqqa): 5 ha tell (mound 10 m high) excavated by Peter Akkermans (Leiden/Amsterdam 1986–): Operation I Burnt Village 6000 BCE — intact burned houses with 3D preserved…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Halaf to Mitanni (6000 BCE–1300 BCE) · Halaf → Ubaid → Uruk → Ninevite V → Akkadian → Mittani
Tell Arbid Southern Ridge is the 14.2-ha southern ridge extension of Tell Arbid on the Wadi Jaghjagh between the Khabur and Tigris headwaters.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
EB IV to Iron Age (2500 BCE–800 BCE) · EB IV Amorite → Middle Bronze Yamhad → Late Bronze Hittite/Mittani → Iron Age Luwian
Tell Tuqan Southern Rampart is the 12-m-high earthen rampart sealing the 35-ha Middle Bronze walled city 35 km east of Maarrat al-Numan.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
MB → LBA Egyptian/Hittite → Iron Phoenician → Persian → Hellenistic (2000–300 BCE) · Amorite → Egyptian (Amarna) → Hittite → Phoenician
Amarna Sumur (350×325 m oval) — Egyptian garrison, Hittite destruction, Phoenician plain capital in Akkar.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Hassuna to Iron Age (6500 BCE–800 BCE) · Hassuna/Samarra → Halaf → Ninevite V → Mittani → Iron Age Aramean
Tell Mohammed Diyab Southern Extension is the 9.8-ha southern skirt of Tell Mohammed Diyab on the upper Khabur plain — a 30-m tell with one of the longest Neolithic-to-Iron sequences in inland Syria…
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EBA-MBA-LBA (c.3500-1200 BCE) · Euphrates EBA to Old Babylonian/Mitannian
Tell Atij (Hassek region) — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Hasakah Governorate.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze to Middle Bronze (3000–2000 BCE) · EBA Syrian → Akkadian → Post-Akkadian → MBA Syrian
Tell Selenkahiyeh Southern Terrace is the lower-town terrace south of the four-tell cluster (15 ha) on the Euphrates west bank, salvaged before Lake Assad (Tabqa Dam) rose 20 m.
🇸🇾 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.
🇸🇾 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.
🇸🇾 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.
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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.
🇸🇾 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.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
MBA through Classical · Canaanite MBA → Ugaritic Shuksi (LB) → Phoenician → Greek emporion
Syrian coastal harbour tell (Shuksi) with MBA to Greek emporion — MBA Canaanite, LB Mycenaean imports and Phoenician Euboean emporion, Danish 1958 dig.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Old Babylonian–Mittani (1900–1350 BCE) – Tabetu · Hurrian–Mittani
Old Babylonian–Mittani (1900–1350 BCE) – Tabetu Hurrian–Mittani tell at Al-Hasakah Governorate, Lower Khabur – city-state tabetu on khabur with cuneiform archive (dims 23 ha city with southern palace archive mound).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early–Middle Bronze (2600–1600 BCE) · Euphrates EB – Mitanni
Early–Middle Bronze (2600–1600 BCE) Euphrates EB – Mitanni tell at Raqqa Governorate, Tabqa Dam zone – twin northern town with tell banat across euphrates branch (dims 15 ha northern citadel with Mittani temple).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
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).
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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).
