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    Tell Brak (Nagar, Nawar) was an ancient city in Syria; it is one the earliest known cities in the world. Its remains constitute a tell located in the Upper...
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  • The Tell Brak Head is an important prehistoric Middle Eastern sculpture found at the ancient site of Tell Brak in Syria. It has been part of the British...
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    large site of Tell Brak in Syria shows, which encourages us to imagine the phenomenon from a more 'symmetrical' angle. Indeed, at Tell Brak, we find that...
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    Battle of Tell Hamis and Tell Brak was fought between the end of December 2013 and the start of January 2014 over control of the town of Tell Hamis and...
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  • Brak, Libya, a city in Libya Brak Airport Tell Brak, an ancient city in Syria Tell Brak (village), a village in Syria Brak (title) (or Braque), former...
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  • Tell Brak (Arabic: تل براك, Kurdish: Til Birak), also spelled Tal Brak, is a village in northern Al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria. It is the...
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    and Ebla. Excavation at the modern site of Tell Brak has suggested that the Akkadians rebuilt a city ("Brak" or "Nagar") on this site, for use as an administrative...
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  • MFS were unable to hold Tell Brak and failed to capture Tel Hamis, and the offensive was called off in early January. Tell Brak was captured on February...
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  • Hamoukar (redirect from Tell Hamoukar)
    earliest settlement of Tell Brak: ... new indicators of social complexity appeared simultaneously with dramatic settlement expansion at Brak and Khirbat al-Fakhar...
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    been produced at specialized centers such as Tell Arpachiyah, Tell Brak, Chagar Bazar and Tell Halaf. At Tell Arpachiyah, beneath the upper Ubaid-dated levels...
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    Tell Halaf Tell Brak Tell Sabi Abyad Tell Arpachiyah Tepe Gawra Chagar Bazar The Halaf culture is a prehistoric period which lasted between about 6100...
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    8 kilometers north of the ancient city of Nagar (Tell Brak). The earliest layers discovered at Tell Barri date to the Halaf period. Barri was in the fertile...
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    urbanisation. Alternatively, a number of proto-urban population centres such as Tell Brak in Northern Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium B.C. can be considered...
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  • The Brak Show is an American adult animated sitcom created by Jim Fortier, Andy Merrill, and Pete Smith for Cartoon Network's late-night programming block...
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    malevolent gazes. Similarly, the Eye-Idols (c. 8700–3500 BC) excavated at the Tell Brak Eye Temple are believed to have been figurines offered to the gods, and...
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    is a tell, or settlement mound, in northern Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria. It is a short distance from the major ancient city of Nagar (Tell Brak). The...
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    height around 54 cm, compared to a Saluki, appearing in the excavations of Tell Brak dated approximately 4,000 years before present. The earliest complete...
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    including those without later Proto-Elamite and proto-cuneiform tablets, like Tell Brak, Habuba Kabira, Tepe Hissar, Godin Tepe and Jebel Aruda. Linear Elamite...
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    Urkesh (Tell Mozan) Nuzi (Yorghan Tepe) Nagar (Tell Brak) Shehna and Shubat-Enlil (Tell Leilan) Kahat (Tell Barri) Nabada (Tell Beydar) Tell Tuneinir...
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    dispose of the murderer. A tablet was found in a Mitanni building at Tell Brak which stated it was witnessed "in the presence of Tushratta, the king"...
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    “Excavations at Tell Brak, 1983-84.” Iraq, vol. 47, 1985, pp. 159–73 UR, JASON, et al. “THE SPATIAL DIMENSIONS OF EARLY MESOPOTAMIAN URBANISM: THE TELL BRAK SUBURBAN...
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    in the excavations of Nimrud under Max Mallowan, but also at Tell al-Rimah and Tell Brak. In the 1962 New Year Honours, she was appointed an Officer of...
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    dog identified as being of the greyhound/saluki form were excavated at Tell Brak in modern Syria, and dated as being approximately 4,000 years old. Dogs...
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    dog identified as being of the greyhound/saluki form was excavated at Tell Brak in modern Syria, and dated to approximately 4,000 years before present...
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    Tepe)ICU Mari (Tell Hariri)WC Hamazi (probably Kani Jowez)NCU Nagar (Tell Brak)W (Sa city in southern Mesopotamia) (Man outlying city in central Mesopotamia)...
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    creative age" of Mesopotamian art. Slightly earlier, the northern city of Tell Brak, today in Syria, also saw urbanization, and the development of a temple...
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  • Raqqa Al-Shabah Ras al-Ayn Tell Abyad Latakia Menagh Sidi Ali Ben Aoun Sadad Qalamoun Aleppo Al-Yaarubiyah Tell Hamis and Tell Brak Anbar 2014 Fallujah N Aleppo...
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    University of Pennsylvania. esp. Ch. 6;289-354 Matthews, D. Early Glyptic of Tell Brak, 176–183. Ur III Glyptic art: Collon, D. Catalogue of the Western Asiatic...
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    Urkesh (redirect from Tell Mozan)
    Bazar is 22 km south of Mozan. Tell Arbid is located 45 km south of Tell Mozan. Tell Brak is about 50 km to the south. Tell Leilan is located about 50 km...
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    beginning sometime about 12,500 BC. Obsidian artifacts are common at Tell Brak, one of the earliest Mesopotamian urban centers, dating to the late fifth...
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