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Tell Halaf

Hasakah Governorate, Syria

Tell Halaf is an archaeological site in Al-Hasakah in northeastern Syria, a few kilometers from the city of Ras al-Ayn near the Syria–Turkey border. The site, which dates to the sixth millennium BCE, was the first to be excavated from a Neolithic culture, later called the Halaf culture, characterized by glazed pottery painted with geometric and animal designs. It is thought to have been historically named Guzana, i.e. the Biblical Gozan.

Archaeological site data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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