🇸🇾 Syria · Earthwork
Harraat al-Harra Desert Kites
Neolithic to Chalcolithic, Badia Neolithic · Harra Neolithic hunters
34 basalt kite traps (4800-3200 BCE) on Harraat al-Harra plateau SE of Damascus, northwestern anchor of mega-kite province.
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🇸🇾 Syria · Earthwork
Neolithic to Chalcolithic, Badia Neolithic · Harra Neolithic hunters
34 basalt kite traps (4800-3200 BCE) on Harraat al-Harra plateau SE of Damascus, northwestern anchor of mega-kite province.
🇸🇾 Syria · Megalith
Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age (c.4500–3000 BCE), some PPN reuse · Leja megalithic (Ghassulian–EB I)
Leja dolmen necropolis (232 dolmens, Chalcolithic–EB, basalt capstones 5 t) south of Tell Qarassa.
🇸🇾 Syria · Temple complex
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.