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Jerablus Tahtani
36.8000° N, 38.0167° E
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Jerablus Tahtani (formerly Tell Alawiyeh) is a small tell on the right bank of the Euphrates River four kilometers south of Carchemish in present-day Syria.
Paleolithic
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Chalcolithic
Bronze Age
Iron Age
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Noted by Leonard Woolley
early 1920s
Rescue excavations
1992–2000
Early occupation phase
middle 3rd millennium BC
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Artificial Mounds
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