🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Köhne Shahar (Köhne Pasgah Tepesi)
Early Bronze (3500–2900 BCE) · Kura-Araxes Early Bronze
Early Bronze (3500–2900 BCE) ancient-city of Kura-Araxes Early Bronze in East Azerbaijan, Moghan (c.3350 BCE).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Yaniktepe (Tappeh Yanik)
Early Bronze (3500–2200 BCE) · Early Transcaucasian (Kura-Araxes)
Early Bronze (3500–2200 BCE) tell of Early Transcaucasian (Kura-Araxes) in West Azerbaijan, Urmia Basin (c.3500 BCE).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Tepe Arisman
Early Bronze (3000–2500 BCE) · Early Bronze (Arisman–Sialk IV)
Early Bronze (3000–2500 BCE) tell of Early Bronze (Arisman–Sialk IV) in Isfahan Province, Natanz (c.3000 BCE).
🇷🇺 Russia · Kurgan
Novosvobodnaya (Maïkop Dolmens)
Early Bronze Age; Late Maikop → Novosvobodnaya → Dolmen culture · Maikop → Novosvobodnaya (dolmen phase) → Yamnaya fringe
Late Maïkop–Novosvobodnaya dolmen kurgans (3300–2600 BCE) under kurgan mounds — 5 m slab dolmen with Mesopotamian cylinder seal, bridging Maïkop elite to Yamnaya.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Alacahöyük
Chalcolithic to Phrygian (c.4500–700 BCE; peak EB III and Hittite Empire) · Hattian → Hittite (Nesite) → Phrygian
Hattian–Hittite fortified city with Sphinx Gate and Early Bronze royal tombs rich in solar-disk bronzes.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Ebla
Early Bronze IVA–B (2400–1600 BCE) · Eblaite Semitic (Northwest Semitic)
Syrian superpower Ebla (c.3500–1600 BCE) with double-walled city (60 ha) and Royal Palace G — where Paolo Matthiae 1975 found the Ebla archive: 17,000 cuneiform tablets in Sumerian and Eblaite…
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Tell
Tell Fadous-Kfarabida
Early Bronze I–III (with Late Chalcolithic) · Early Bronze Levantine (coastal Canaanite)
EB I–III (3200–2500 BCE) coastal village with Egyptian imports — Lebanon's finest EB chronology.