Tell Kunara

Tell Kunara
Tell Kunara is located in Iraq
Tell Kunara
Shown within Iraq
LocationIraq
Coordinates35°31′10″N 45°21′34″E / 35.51944°N 45.35944°E / 35.51944; 45.35944
Typesettlement
History
Foundedc. 2300 BC
PeriodsBronze Age
CulturesAkkadian, Ur III, Isin-Larsa
Site notes
Excavation dates2012-2023
ArchaeologistsC. Kepinski, Aline Tenu
ConditionRuined
OwnershipPublic
Public accessYes
French Excavations at Tell Kunara. Akkadian-Lullubian, 2300–2000 BCE. Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Republic of Iraq, 3 October 2019

Tell Kunara is an ancient Near East archaeological site about 10 kilometers southwest of Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. It lies on the Tanjaro River. The site was occupied from the Chalcolithic period to the early second millennium BC.[1]

  1. ^ [1]Tenu, Aline, and Christine Kepinski. "Kunara, a Bronze Age City on the Upper Tanjaro (Iraq)". 9th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 3, pp. 147–159, 2014