Tell Amarna Most interesting finds: – Painted fragments of pottery vessels from the Halaf period – Ceramic vessels from the Bronze Age – Terracotta figurines from the Bronze and Iron Ages – Cylindrical seal from the Bronze Age – Oil lamps from the Hellenistic period – Remains of an early Christian church – Floor mosaics […]
Tell Arbid Tell Arbit Most interesting finds: – Temple of the Ninevite 5 period, one of the oldest buildings of this type in northern Mesopotamia – Two richly furnished women’s graves of the Mitanni period – Relics of domestic and official buildings from different periods – Khabur Ware period graves – Numerous examples of glyptics […]
Tell Djassa el-Gharbi Tell Jassa (el-Gharbi) Tell Jassas Most interesting finds: – Well-preserved architectural remains – Lead figurine of Ishtar(?) History of research: Dates of PCMA research: 1988–1990 Type of research: Salvage excavations Project directors: Maria Krogulska (first season) Piotr Bieliński Partners: – Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw – Directorate […]
Tell el-Farkha Tell el-Farcha Ghazala Most interesting finds: – Lower Egyptian culture settlement divided into functional quarters (residential, representative, and economic) – The oldest brewing center in Egypt (about 3700–3500 BC) – The so-called Naqadian residence – the largest predynastic residential building known from Egypt (about 3500–3350 BC, Western Kom) – Protodynastic settlement on the […]
Tell el-Murra Most interesting finds: – Discovery of Lower Egyptian culture remains and determining that the beginnings of the settlement at Tell el-Murra date to about 3500 BC – Discovery of remains attesting to a very high level of the flooding of the Nile, which probably destroyed a large part of the settlement at the […]
Tell Qaramel Most interesting finds: – A few dozen early Neolithic structures, including five towers and two proto-temples – More than 400 ornamental stone objects – A few dozen skeleton burials inside the settlement History of research: Dates of PCMA research: 1999–2011 Type of research: Excavations Project directors: Ryszard F. Mazurowski (1999–2021) Bassam Jammous (1999–2000 […]
Tell Rad Shakrah Tell Rad Shaqra Tell Rad Szakra Most interesting finds: – Defense wall built of stone and bricks with earth-and-stone glacis – Relics of residential buildings and street grid of the Early Dynastic III period – More than 40 graves of various types, both adults’ and children’s, some of them richly furnished – […]
Tell Rijim Tall Rigm Most interesting finds: – Graves from the Ninevite 5 period – Fragments of residential buildings from the Middle Bronze Age and the Neo-Assyrian period – Four cylindrical seals and two fibulae from the Neo-Assyrian period – Graves from the Achaemenid or Sassanid period History of research: Dates of PCMA research: 1984–1985 […]
Wadi Khashab Most interesting finds: – complex of human and animal burials surrounded by stone stelae – stone stelae and pavements – separate tumuli History of research: Investigated by the PCMA mission in: 2010–2015 Type of research: Survey, excavations Directors: Piotr Osypiński Co-operating institutions: – Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw – Patrimonium […]