Tell Qarqur

Tell Qarqur (Arabic: تل قرقور) is a major archaeological site located in the Orontes River Valley of western Syria.

Situated in a rich alluvial plain known as the Ghab valley, the double-mounded site lies near the modern town of Jisr ash-Shugur and one kilometer west of the village of Qarqur.

Tell Qarqur possesses a 10,000-year history of virtually continuous occupation, from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (c. 8500 BC) through the Mamluk period (AD 1350).

Finds included several phases of stone-built fortification walls, numerous private houses, and a temple complex dating to the later third millennium BC.

[9] Reports emerged that the destruction, which can be viewed through satellite imagery, was done under the supervision of unidentified civilians who were not Syrian nor members of the Turkistan Islamic Party militants.