Tell
A tell is a mound (often found in the Middle East) over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Ahwar of Southern Iraq | Tell Eridu Archaeological Site, and "The archaeological site of Uruk is composed of three ‘tells’ and there is evidence of multiple cities built on top of one another" (AB ev) | |
| Aleppo | Mound of Al-Aquabah (which probably constitues the Tel of ancient Aleb) | |
| Ancient Jericho | Tell es-Sultan | |
| Ancient Kingdom of Saba | "Ma’rib now survives as a tell overlooking what was the Northern Oasis and separated from what was the Southern Oasis by the Wadi Dhana." (AB ev) | |
| Ancient Ksour | Tichitt lies on a tell (AB ev) | |
| Arslantepe Mound | Arslantepe Mound is a 30-metre-tall archaeological tell located in the Malatya plain, 12 km south-west of the Euphrates River. (official description, Unesco website) | |
| Ashur | "an exceptional testimony to succeeding civilizations from the Sumerian period in the 3rd millennium BC to the Assyrian empire from the 14th to 9th centuries, and, later, the Parthian revival in the 2nd century BC" (OUV), has mounds with layers from different civilizations (see link) | |
| Babylon | The remains of the city are in present-day Hillah, Babil Governorate, Iraq, about 85 kilometres (53 mi) south of Baghdad, comprising a large tell of broken mud-brick buildings and debris. wiki) | |
| Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" | Tell Al-Kharrar (Elijah’s Hill) | |
| Biblical Tells | ||
| Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin | Tel Maresha | |
| Djenné | From AB evaluation "The floods cover all but some hillocks; these are called toguere.....All these tells, which were a natural refuge from the flood waters, are potential archaeological sites and on that basis deserve to be protected." This refers to the Toguere of Djenne-Djeno and "Other toguere, such as at Hambarketolo, Tonomba and Kaniana..." | |
| Erbil Citadel | ||
| Göbekli Tepe | "consists of a natural limestone plateau on which stands an artificial hill (tell)" (AB ev) | |
| Hegmataneh | Tell Hagmatana (Tappa-ye Hagmatana) | |
| Hortobágy | ||
| Nisa | ||
| Qal'at al-Bahrain | ||
| Tell Umm Amer | Part of the name | |
| Troy | "The archaeological site of Troy consists of the hill of Hisarlik and the fields below it to the south. The hill is a tell, composed of strata containing the remains left behind by more than three millennia of human occupation" (wiki) | |
| Çatalhöyük | two large tells (AB ev) |
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