Tell Amarna is an archaeological site near the village Amarnah in northern Syria, on the west bank of the Euphrates.
[1] The site was investigated as part of the archaeological salvage excavations conducted due to the building of the Tishrin Dam on the Euphrates.
Eight excavation seasons carried out on the 20-m-high tell revealed layers dating from the Halaf culture[2] (6th millennium BC) through the Byzantine period (5th century AD).
[3] After the discovery of a basilica, dated to the 5th century AD, archaeologists and conservators from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology University of Warsaw were asked to assist in the restoration and interpretation of this building.
Thirteen of them formed the core of the exhibition “Tell Amarna in Syria; From the 6th Millennium BC Painted Pottery to the Byzantine Mosaics”, which was presented in 2005 first in Belgium and then in Poland, in the State Archaeological Museum in Warsaw.