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Tell Zeidan is an archaeological site of the Ubaid culture in northern
SyriaSyria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....
, from about 5500 to 4000 BC. The dig consists of three large mounds on the east bank of the Balikh River, slightly north of its confluence with the Euphrates River, and is located about 5 km (3.1 mi) east of the modern Syrian city of ar-Raqqah (or Raqqa). This site is included within the historical region known as
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and the
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, often called the
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Archaeology
An international archaeological project, the Joint Syrian-American Archaeological Research Project at Tell Zeidan, is surveying and excavating the Tell Zeidan site. The project started in 2008, two seasons are completed, and the third season is scheduled to start in July 2010.
Muhammad Sarhan, director of the Raqqa Museum, and
Gil SteinGil Stein is an American archaeologist and current director of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago.Stein received a B.A. from Yale University in 1978 and a Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of Pennsylvania.-Publications:...
, director of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, are co-directors of the project.
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