Tell

Connected Sites: 21

Definition
A tell is a mound (often found in the Middle East) over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements

Map

Connected Sites

  • Biblical Tells
    Inscribed: 2005
    3.03
    100
    10
  • Troy
    Troy
    Turkiye
    Inscribed: 1998
    2.82
    140
    8
    "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)
  • Tell Umm Amer
    Palestine
    Inscribed: 2024
    0
    0
    Part of the name
  • Çatalhöyük
    Inscribed: 2012
    3.45
    75
    7
    two large tells (AB ev)
  • Babylon
    Inscribed: 2019
    3.13
    29
    3
    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)
  • Ashur
    Ashur
    Iraq
    Inscribed: 2003
    2.86
    18
    2
    "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)
    See www.assur.de
  • Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin
    Inscribed: 2014
    3.25
    60
    9
    Tel Maresha
  • Aleppo
    Aleppo
    Syria
    Inscribed: 1986
    3.53
    68
    5
    Mound of Al-Aquabah (which probably constitues the Tel of ancient Aleb)
  • Qal'at al-Bahrain
    Inscribed: 2005
    2.51
    100
    6
  • Nisa
    Nisa
    Turkmenistan
    Inscribed: 2007
    2.07
    49
    5
  • Hortobágy
    Hortobágy
    Hungary
    Inscribed: 1999
    2.30
    105
    8
  • Inscribed: 2024
    2.36
    11
    1
    Tell Hagmatana (Tappa-ye Hagmatana)
  • Göbekli Tepe
    Inscribed: 2018
    3.77
    68
    6
    "consists of a natural limestone plateau on which stands an artificial hill (tell)" (AB ev)
  • Erbil Citadel
    Inscribed: 2014
    2.51
    38
    4
  • Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan"
    Inscribed: 2015
    2.24
    141
    8
    Tell Al-Kharrar (Elijah’s Hill)
  • Ancient Kingdom of Saba
    Inscribed: 2023
    2.73
    3
    1
    "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 Jericho
    Inscribed: 2023
    2.74
    69
    4
    Tell es-Sultan
  • Djenné
    Inscribed: 1988
    3.66
    33
    2
    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..."
  • Arslantepe Mound
    Inscribed: 2021
    2.42
    36
    5
    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)
  • Ancient Ksour
    Ancient Ksour
    Mauritania
    Inscribed: 1996
    3.05
    23
    3
    Tichitt lies on a tell (AB ev)
  • Ahwar of Southern Iraq
    Inscribed: 2016
    2.98
    23
    4
    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)