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Multi-periodSite Name: HarranCountry: Turkey
NOTE: This site is 0.119 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Şanlıurfa Nearest Village: Harran
Latitude: 36.863864N Longitude: 39.032197E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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ModernExplorers visited on 14th Jun 2012 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Nothing in the town except for the interesting beehive shaped roofs, not much to see though but worth stopping briefly on your way to Bazda cave
PAB davidmorgan have visited here
Excavations [2006] in the Harran district of Şanlıurfa have uncovered a stamp dating back to 4,000-5,000 BCE. Harran excavation team leader Nurettin Yardımcı said the excavations have been ongoing since 1983 and that recent work in the area has focused on the Harran tumulus and Ulu Cami as well as the Neolithic settlement of Tellidris.
"Our work has indicated that the first inhabitants of Harran lived in Tellidris, dating back to around 8,000 BCE. We found some stamps with different shapes and motifs as well as a bull figure dating back to 6,000 BCE in last year's excavations. The findings showed that the people of Harran and Tellidris lived together around 9,000-10,000 years ago and that the people in Tellidris abandoned it and moved to the Harran tumulus area in later years", he said.
The Tellidris excavations conducted this year [2006], on the other hand, uncovered a stamp dating back to an earlier period, around 4,000 or 5,000 B.C., and we believe that the excavations in Tellidris will unearth further findings of the Neolithic era in the coming years, Yardımcı said.
Source: Turkish Daily News
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