Shoukh Tahtani
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Tell Shoukh Tahtani is an example of one of the sites currently being excavated in response to the rising waters of the Euphrates resulting from the Tishrine Dam project. However, the waters have not risen as much as was expected and so this site has remained untouched.

Professor Gioacchino Falsone of Palermo University and his team have excavated the site down to the Early Bronze Age levels.

Throughout the Early, Middle and Late Bronze Ages (3rd and 2nd millennia BC), the site appears to have been a small settlement. It was transformed in the Iron Age (1st millennium BC) into a garrison site and home to a small number of guards and their families.

 Excavations at Tell Shoukh Tahtani.
(J. Tubb, 2001)
Work in progress on the acropolis of the tell, in what appears to be a small cemetery area.  Dr. Paola Falsoni instructs her daughter Sofia in the fine art of small finds recording.  (Permission to show this photograph has been granted by the excavator)

Last modified 08/09/2002