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Kenan Tepe
Kenan Tepe is an ancient Near East archaeological site located within the Diyarbakır Province in the Ilisu dam upper Tigris River region in the southeast of modern Turkey near the borders of modern Syria and Iraq, about 12 kilometers east of the modern town of Bismil and on the north bank of the Tigris river. It lies 15 kilometers to the northeast of the site of Ziyaret Tepe and 12 kilometers to the west of Salat Tepe. The site was one of several examined by the Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project in preparation for flooding resulting from the construction of the Ilisu Dam, including Boztepe and Talavas Tepe. Archaeology An archaeological survey of the region in the 1990s found a number of potential excavation targets including Giricano, Ziyaret Tepe, Gre Dimse, Boztepe, Salat Tepe, and Kenan Tepe. Kenan Tepe covers an area of about 4.5 hectares with a 1.1 hectare upper mound (built up on a natural hill) and a east and northeast (350 meters by 200 meters ) lower town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hirbemerdon Tepe
Hirbemerdon Tepe is an archaeological site in Turkey located in the east of Diyarbakir Province, on the western bank of the Tigris, Tigris River, east of Bismil, Turkey.Laneri, Nicola, and Jason Ur. 2010The Hirbemerdon Tepe archaeological project 2008: a preliminary report 31. Kazž Sonuçlarž Toplantžsž. Denizli, Turkey: Ministry of Culture and Tourism for TurkeyArchivedfrom the original on October 9, 2023 The settlement began in the fourth millennium BCE during the Chalcolithic, Chalcolithic era, and continued to the time of the Ottoman Empire. The earliest pottery at the site is similar to the chaff-faced ware of Uruk period. Hirbemerdon Tepe is considered to be an important archaeological site due to its strategic location near agricultural terraces by the Tigris, Tigris River and local uplands. As a result, archaeologists consider it to provide valuable information on the transformation of the relationship between agricultural communities and nomadic pastoralist societies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |