🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Kannas (Tell Kannâs)
Late Uruk to Early Dynastic I–II (3500–2500 BCE) · North Mesopotamian Uruk → Early Bronze (EJ 1–2)
Euphrates levee town with Uruk planned lower town and EB fortification beside Habuba.
🇮🇷 Iran · Pyramid
Tepe Sialk Ziggurat
Proto-Elamite / Early Bronze (Sialk III–IV) · Proto-Elamite / Sialk Culture
Proto-ziggurat terrace at Tepe Sialk (Kashan) c.3000 BCE: early Iranian high temple platform with Proto-Elamite connections, precursor to Mesopotamian ziggurat tradition.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell Uqair
Ubaid to Early Dynastic I (c.5000–2900 BCE; mural is Late Uruk–Jemdet Nasr c.3200 BCE) · Ubaid → Uruk → Jemdet Nasr → Early Dynastic
Painted Temple mound with 3200 BCE leopard mural — first mural art in Mesopotamia.
🇮🇷 Iran · Pyramid
Ziggurat of Tepe Musiyan (Deh Luran)
Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (Uruk to ED) · Proto-Elamite / Jemdet Nasr
Early highland proto-ziggurat at Tepe Musiyan, Deh Luran — 50×70 m oval platform c.3100 BCE linking Uruk Susiana to Elamite highland terraces.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Jemdet Nasr
Late Uruk to Early Dynastic I transitional (Jemdet Nasr period, c.3100–2900 BCE) · Late Uruk → Jemdet Nasr (proto-literate) → Early Dynastic I
Proto-cuneiform type-site of the 3100 BCE 'lost century' between Uruk and Dynastic Sumer.