Sites in the Assyrian Sphere

Site co-ordinates are provided in decimal latitude and longitude values. Click on a data source under the Satellite View column to see the site from above, or click the button in the Coordinates column to paste a location’s co-ordinates to your device’s clipboard. Sites with accompanying websites are now being added to the Web column.

The co-ordinates of sites listed with a ? are uncertain: either the reference is inexact or tentative, or the location’s attribution is unsafe. Please feel free to suggest updates and provide corrections.

 

Assyrian Sites

SiteSatellite ViewCoordinatesWeb
Ashur
Capital of Assyria, with habitation stretching back to EBA
Nineveh
Major Assyrian centre settled in the Neolithic
Qattara (mod. Tell al-Rimah)
City stretching back to EBA
Sultantepe (Huzirina?)
Late Assyrian temple complex
Susa
Imperial cente dating back to the Neolithic

 


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