Geography and Maps

Abu Hureyra
Village on the Euphrates; a website in support of the book by  A.M.T. Moore, G.C. Hillman, and A.J. Legge; site does contain some information concerning the archaeological site in the Euphrates valley of northern Syria, dated 9000-6000 BC, before, during and after the introduction of agriculture in the region.

'Ain Dara
Tenth century B.C.E. temple, which in this article in Biblical Archaeology Review is believed to be very similar to the construction described in the Old Testament for Solomon's temple.

Deir Al-Surian
Recent discoveries of wall-paintings in this Coptic monastery, an article in Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies.

Dura-Europos
A brief exposition and some pictures of the ancient synagogue from Neil Bernstein's site at the Classics Department of Duke University.

Isriye
Roman/Byzantine occupation, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. German.

Jerablus Tahtani
Excavations by the University of Edinburgh; 4th and 3rd millennia BC, or Period 1, the Late Uruk occupation, and Period 2, the Early Bronze Age.

Jerf el Ahmar
Mureybetian culture (Prepottery Neolithic)  site on the Euphrates River; from the French Ministry of Culture (in French).

Palmyra
One of the cities on the Great Silk Road, a thriving town in the desert occupied from 100 B.C.- 272 A.D; excavations by the Nara Archaeological Mission.
     Palmyra textile investigation, from the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. German.

Qanawat
Urban center of late antiquity, international excavations here reported by the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. German

Qatna
Recently discovered Bronze Age archaeological site with 63 new cuneiform tablets; news report from the University of Tubingen, in German.

Ras Shamra
A dissertation proposal from Jill Ashley Fine at the Oriental Institute, discussing her research in Late Bronze Age metallurgy.
     University of Sasketchewan A brief report on their long-term excavations here.

Resafa
Mid-1950s investigations by the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut of this Roman/Byzantine occupation.

The Rouj Basin Project
From the University of Tsukuba, archaeology survey of a portion of north-west Syria.

Tell Afis
This site contains early evidence (700 BC) iron smelting; excavations by the University of Pisa; the website is an abstract of a talk on  the excavations and includes a picture. In Italian

Tell Beydar
Dating to the Early Dynastic III period (25th and 24 th centuries BC), this excavation is a joint project between Antoine Suleiman,  Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museum and Marc Lebeau, heading teams from the Universities of Münster, Leuven and Brussels.

Tell Brak
University of Cambridge, a project concentrated on the Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age occupation of Northern Mesopotamia.

Tell Chuera
Excavations at site, occupied beginning in the Middle Assyrian period, by the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg's Institute for Oriental Archaeology and Art. In German.

Tell es-Sweyhat
Small Bronze Age city on the Euphrates; excavations by Tony Wilkinson under the Oriental Institute.
    The Tell es-Sweyhat Project from the University of Pennsylvania.

Tell Halula
Excavations have recovered dating to 8,500 years ago, by Miquel Molist of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; an abstract from Archaeology Magazine.

Tell Hamoukar
Chalcolithic settlement in Syria indicates complex development at the same time, but possibly independent of Uruk; from the University of Chicago.

Tell Mashnaqa
Excavations by The Danish Institute, and the Carsten Niebuhr Institute, University of Copenhagen, at the site with its earliest occupation dated to the Ubaid period. English and Danish.

Tell Melebiya
Space Speaks Volumes: Quantifying Spatial Characteristics of 3rd Millennium B.C. Houses, a paper by Francis Deblauwe (University of Missouri-Kansas City).

Tell Meskéné
Possibly the ancient site of Emar, a Bronze and Iron Age occupation, from an article in Biblical Archaeologist 58(3) 1995, by Jean-Claude Margueron

Tell Mozan
Tell Mozan is thought to be Urkesh, the ancient capital of the Hurrian society; an online article from Archaeology Odyssey.

Tell Nebi Mend
Middle and Late Bronze Age occupations at this site, from S. J. Bourke, an abstract from Levant.

Tell Qarqur
American School of Orient Research investigations into the Iron Age occupation at Tell Qarqur.

Tell Selenkahiye
University of Sheffield, chemical analysis and metallographic examination of a number of copper alloy samples from this Bronze Age site.

Tell Tuneinir
Eleven years of excavation by the St. Louis Community College at this Islamic and Bronze Age site in northeast Syria. .

Tell Umm el-Marra
Bronze Age urban site, reported here in American Journal of Archaeology by Glenn M. Schwartz and others. Complete .pdf article.

Tell Ziyade
Ubaid culture site, under excavation by Gregory A. Johnson, Hunter College.
     Possible storage structures article by Frank Hole in the Journal of Field Archaeology

The American Schools of Oriental Research
Has been conducting archaeological reseach for 100 years, and has projects in Syria.

The British Institute at Amman
Is conducting rescue archaeology at Jerablus-Tahtani.

The Council for British Research in the Levant
Projects page for Syria, includes brief abstracts of numerous recent activities.

European Centre for Upper Mesopotamian Studies
Excavations at Tell Beydar, and editing the Subarto series on the archaeology of Upper Mesopotamia. French and English.

Institute of Archaeology Mesopotamian Laboratory
At the University of California at Los Angeles; page is currently under construction.

Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology
At the University of Pennsylvania, conducts work in Turkey, Iran, Syria, and Tunisia.

University of Bilkent
Conducts research in Turkey, Iran, and Syria.

University of Leuven
MA in Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology, and conducts research in Turkey, Syria, and Egypt.

University College at London
Department of Western Asiatic Archaeology, research in Bahrain, Yemen, Turkmenistan, Iran, Iraq, and Syria.

Giorgio Buccellati
UCLA, Stratigraphic theory; application of structural methods of analysis to specific aspects of ancient culture, and in particular to language (Akkadian and Amorite); political institutions; religious experience; literary expression; Syro-Mesopotamia in the third and second millennium BC; current research: Tell Mozan, believed to be the ancient site of Urkesh, of Hurrian mythology.

Francis DeBlauwe
Settlement patterns at the site of Tell Melebiya, specifically houses from the  Early Dynastic III period (ca. 2500-2300 B.C.).

Susan Downey
Classical archaeology; Near East after the Greek conquest (ca. 300 BC - 300 AD), current research includes test excavations in the Temple of Zeus Megistos (The Greatest) in the Greek colony of Dura-Europos.

Gregory A. Johnson
Hunter College, field school at Tell Ziyade, a Ubaid occupation.

Kathryn Kamp
Ethnoarchaeology at a Syrian village; an abstract from the Journal of Anthropological Research
     A second abstract on social stratification from the Journal of Field Archaeology.

Joy McCorriston
Archaeobotanical studies in the Khabur Drainage, an abstract from the Journal of Field Archaeology.

E. Peltenberg and others
Fourth season report at Jerablus-Tahtani, an abstract from Levant.
     also an abstract from the fifth season.

Graham Philip
University of Durham, metallurgy studies at Tell Selenkahiye and Carchemish Tahtani.

Scott Redford and M. James Blackman
Ceramics in medieval Syria, an abstract from the Journal of Field Archaeology.

Patricia Wattenmaker
The formation and organizational dynamics of complex societies; work in Syria, Egypt, Morocco, and Turkey; University of Virginia.

T. J. Wilkinson
At the Oriental Institute, report of a survey in the central Balikh Valley.
     Water and Human Settlement in the Balikh Valley article abstract in the Journal of Field Archaeology.

Paul Zimansky
Boston University, Bronze and Iron Age archaeology of Anatolia, Syria, and Mesopotamia, worked at  Tell Abu Duwari (Iraq), Tell Hamide (Iraq), and American contingent at Tell 'Ain Dara (Syria).

History of Syria
From ArabNET.

The Arameans: A brief look
An article by Farras Abdelnour, an electrical engineer with a passion for Syrian history, originally published in Our World.

Syria: Land of Civilisations
From the Québec Musée de la Civilisation, a website on a new exhibition on the rise of civlization in Syria; in French and English.

Trade at Ugarit In The 13th Century BC
Another article by Farras Abdelnour.

Syria-Net
General information, including cultural data, travel, and business contacts.