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Multi-periodSite Name: Tell Umm el-Marra
Country: Syria
NOTE: This site is 24.166 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement

Latitude: 36.134000N  Longitude: 37.694000E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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The largest site on the Jabbul Plain in the Bronze Age. This settlement bears evidence of occupation from the mid-third millennium through the late second millennium BCE before temporary abandonment, followed by small-scale re-occupations in the later Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman periods.

Joint excavations between Johns Hopkins (USA) and University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) have revealed an elite mortuary complex in the Acropolis Center, with ten tombs built during the EBA. With their placement in the city center and the rich funerary goods found within the tombs and the lack of other adult humans buried within the wider settlement, it is thought that these tombs contain the royalty of the Bronze Age settlement. Beginning in the EBIII (ca. 2600–2450 BCE), these limestone and mudbrick tombs seem to have not just been resting places for the elites of the city, but also a cultic center for ancestor veneration.
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104142
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