List of archaeological sites in Lebanon explained

This is a list of archaeological sites in the Republic of Lebanon.

There are many tells in Lebanon – artificial mounds formed from the accumulated refuse of people living on the same site for hundreds or thousands of years. A classic tell looks like a low, truncated cone with sloping sides^[1] and can be up to 30 metres high.^[2] Tells are most commonly associated with the archaeology of the ancient Near East, but they are also found elsewhere, such as Central Asia, Eastern Europe,^[3] West Africa^[4] and Greece.^{[5] [6]} Within the Near East, they are concentrated in less arid regions, including Upper Mesopotamia, the Southern Levant, Anatolia and Iran.

Tells

This is a list of notable archaeological tells in Lebanon sorted by alphabetical order:

• Tell Aalaq
• Tell Ablah
• Tell Addus
• Tell Ahle
• Tell Ain Cerif
• Tell Ain el Meten
• Tell Ain Ghessali
• Tell Ain Nfaikh
• Tell Ain Saouda
• Tell Ain Sofar
• Tell Ayoub
• Tell Bar Elias
• Tell Beshara
• Tell Bir Dakoue
• Tell Deir
• Tell Delhamieh
• Tell Derzenoun
• Tell Dibbine
• Tell el-Burak
• Tell El Ghassil
• Tell El Hadeth
• Tell Fadous
• Tell Hazzine
• Tell Hoch Rafqa
• Tell Karmita
• Tell Khardane
• Tell Kirri
• Tell Jezireh
• Tell Jisr
• Tell Kabb Elias
• Tell Majdaloun
• Tell Masoud
• Tell Mekhada
• Tell Meouchi
• Tell Mureibit
• Tell Murtafa
• Tell Nahariyah
• Tell Neba'a Chaate
• Tell Neba'a Litani
• Tell Nhas
• Tell Qasr Labwe
• Tell Rasm El Hadeth
• Tell Rayak
• Tell Saatiya
• Tell Safiyeh
• Tell Saoudhi
• Tell Serhan
• Tell Shaikh Hassan al Rai
• Tell Shamsine
• Tell Sultan Yakoub
• Tell Taalabaya
• Tell Wardeen
• Tell Zenoub
• Tell Zeitoun

Further reading

• Book: Lloyd, Seton. Mounds of the Near East. 1963. Edinburgh University Press. Edinburgh. Internet Archive.

Notes and References

1. Archaeology of Palestine, Art of Excavating a Palestinian Mound, William Foxwell Albright, 1960, p. 16
2. Book: Wilkinson, Tony J.. Archaeological Landscapes of the Near East. University of Arizona Press. 2003. 978-0-8165-2173-9. Tucson, AZ. 100–127. Tony Wilkinson. Internet Archive.
3. Bailey. Douglass W.. Tringham. Ruth. Bass. Jason. Stevanović. Mirjana. Hamilton. Mike. Neumann. Heike. Angelova. Ilke. Raduncheva. Ana. 1998-01-01. Expanding the Dimensions of Early Agricultural Tells: The Podgoritsa Archaeological Project, Bulgaria. Journal of Field Archaeology. 25. 4. 373–396. 10.1179/009346998792005298. 0093-4690.
4. MacDonald. Kevin C.. 1997. More forgotten tells of Mali: an archaeologist's journey from here to Timbuktu. Archaeology International. 1. 1. 40–42. 10.5334/ai.0112. free.
5. Davidson. Donald A.. Wilson. Clare A.. Lemos. Irene S.. Theocharopoulos. S. P.. 2010-07-01. Tell formation processes as indicated from geoarchaeological and geochemical investigations at Xeropolis, Euboea, Greece. Journal of Archaeological Science. 37. 7. 1564–1571. 10.1016/j.jas.2010.01.017. 2010JArSc..37.1564D . 1893/16434. free.
6. Book: Kotsakis, Kostas. https://books.google.com/books?id=tgdthHDYY5UC&pg=PA66. Neolithic Society in Greece. 1999. Sheffield Academic Press. 9781850758242. Halstead. Paul. Sheffield. en. What Tells can Tell: Social Space and Settlement in the Greek Neolithic.