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The tell ( mound ) of al -` Ubaid () west of nearby Ur in southern Iraq's Dhi Qar Governorate has given its name to the prehistoric Pottery Neolithic to Chalcolithic culture, which represents the earliest settlement on the alluvial plain of southern Mesopotamia.
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The ancient Kingdom of Awsan with a capital at Hagar Yahirr in the wadi Markha to the south of the wadi Bayhan is now marked by a tell or artificial mound, which is locally named Hagar Asfal.
Although the site of Washukanni, alleged to be at Tell Fakhariya, is not known for certain, no tell ( city mound ) in the Khabur Valley much exceeds the size of 1 square kilometer ( 250 acres ), and the majority of sites are much smaller.
The Arabic Tell el-Semak ( or Tell es-Samak, meaning " mound of the fish ") preserved and transformed this ancient name, with locals using it to refer to a coastal tell at the foot of the Carmel Mountains that contains its remains.
Abu Hureyra is a tell, or ancient settlement mound, located in modern-day Ar-Raqqah Governorate in northern Syria.
tell | Tepe of the Royal city ( left ) and of the Acropolis ( right ), seen from the Hill mound of the Apadana.
A tell or tel, ( from,, ) is a type of archaeological mound created by human occupation and abandonment of a geographical site over many centuries.
A common practice in Egypt, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, was for farmers to obtain government permits to remove this material from ancient mounds ; a mound of this type is also known as a tell, or tel.
Urkesh or Urkish ( modern Tell Mozan ) is a tell, or settlement mound, located in the foothills of the Taurus Mountains in Al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria.
The ancient Kingdom of Awsan in South Arabia ( modern Yemen ), with a capital at Hagar Yahirr in the wadi Markha, to the south of the wadi Bayhan, is now marked by a tell or artificial mound, which is locally named Hagar Asfal.
Tel Shikmona () is an ancient tell ( mound ) situated near the sea coast on the southern entrance to the modern city of Haifa, Israel.
According to The Fireside Book of Baseball by Charles Einstein, in the seventh game Frisch called time and walked over from second base to the mound to tell Dean " If you don't stop clowning around, I'll take you out of the game.
The archaeological site of Tegdaoust forms an artificial mound or tell extending for 12 hectares.
* A tell, a type of archaeological mound created by human occupation
In 1884 Teodor T. Burada visited the tell ( a hill or mound formed by long-term human occupation ) there and found fragments of pottery and terracotta figurines.
Mureybet is a tell, or ancient settlement mound, located on the west bank of the Euphrates in Ar-Raqqah Governorate, northern Syria.
Mureybet is a tell, or ancient settlement mound, measuring in diameter and high.
An alternative site, Hisarlik tell, a thirty-meter-high mound, was identified as a possible site of ancient Troy by a number of amateur archaeologists in the early to mid 19th century.
The archaeological site consists of a ) of a steep-sided mound or tell (' Toumba ' in Modern Greek ) and b ) a low table ( Trapeza ) spreading around its base.
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Elayne is one of three women who love Rand al ' Thor, and is close friends with the other two ( Aviendha and Min ); the three have agreed to share him, and recently Bonded him as their mutual Warder, partly for the side effect of being able to tell what the other person is feeling.
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* Goombario () the Goomba, who has the ability to tell the player about any character, any environment, and any enemy.
() His messengers, sent to consult the god of Ekron regarding his recovery from the effects of a fall from the roof-gallery of his palace, were met on the way by Elijah, who sent them back to tell the king that he would never rise from his bed (; ).
Maugris or Maugis () was one of the heroes of the chansons de geste and romances of chivalry and the Matter of France that tell of the legendary court of King Charlemagne.
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Other oral histories place the origin of the Dogon to the west beyond the river Niger, or tell of the Dogon coming from the east.
Ibn Kathir contends that Dhul-Qarnayn did reach the farthest place that could be travelled west but not the " resting place " of the sun and he goes on to mention that the People of the Book ( Jews and Christians ) tell myths about Dhul-Qarnayn travelling so far beyond the end of the Earth that the sun was " behind him.
Also, as the stations had not been laid out effectively for cross-platform interchange, trains travelling west from St. George and east from Bay alternated between the two levels, leading passengers to wait on the stairs in-between the levels, since they were unable to tell which platform would receive the next train.
", and proceeded to tell Robinson how he had been prospecting out west with a companion in 1938.
They all tell stories of striking it rich in silver mines out west.
Sámr rides west and again seeks the support of Þorkell and Þorgeirr, but they tell him he has only himself to blame for his misfortune.
However, Haliwa-Saponi tribal elders tell of several families ' migrating west to Indian Territory on their own, some merging into the general population, while others were adopted by one of the so-called Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma.
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When Lester will not tell them, Donny shoots a nearby priest ( Eva-Maria Schönecker ), and threatens to kill others if the information is not delivered.
In the 1950s, archaeologists found ruins at a nearby tell which were mistaken for the Philistine city of Gath.
Following the war of independence and during the ensuing Civil War, in the early 1920s, Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) soldiers, from nearby North Kerry came to the 27th Knight Desmond FitzJohn Lloyd FitzGerald to tell him that no one whose title to land came from the English Crown could keep their land.
Genetic studies tell us that the human line possibly diverged from the chimpanzee line, and the native territory of the latter is the forests of Central Africa nearby.
Simba tries to tell them that other creatures nearby need water as well, but Timon and Pumbaa still don't care.
The tell was settled in Neo-Babylonian times as well ( a hilani has been excavated ), but the town remained insignificant as nearby Emesa had taken over its position on the trade routes.
The two go and find the colt as Jesus had predicted and start to untie it and people standing nearby ask what they are up to and they tell them what Jesus told them to say and amazingly they leave them alone.
Today the cities remains feature a rectangular tell 500 by 200 metres in area and a nearby circular citadel about 3 kilometre north east of Bagram Airforce base.
The museum nearby chronicles the history of the first settlers, with each of the original Huguenot farms having its own fascinating story to tell.
Holmes and Watson find themselves at the Fighting Cock Inn, and meet the innkeeper, Reuben Hayes, who seems startled indeed to hear that Holmes wants to go to Holdernesse Hall, the Duke's nearby house, to tell him news of his son.
He is madly in love with a girl named Kendall, who works in the same flower shop as he, but he is too shy to tell her, and gets ( even more ) clumsy when she is nearby.
Mazierri got out of the car to tell the driver of the tow truck to move along and it was at this moment that two of the kidnappers, who had been hiding nearby, made off in Mazzieri's car.
After rushing downstairs to the servant's quarters to raise the alarm, she went to nearby Killymanamly House to telephone her elderly husband, The 5th Earl of Enniskillen ( 1876-1963 ), at the Ulster Club in Belfast to tell him that the house was on fire.
Snow tell him that Asmodeus lives in a nearby quarry, but mocks Matthias for thinking he could stand a chance against the snake.
A freed Yates makes contact to tell UNIT that the Thunderbolt is being kept in an abandoned hangar nearby.
When arrest warrants are issued for Frank and Jesse, Major A. Rufus Cobb ( Henry Hull ) editor in nearby Liberty, Missouri and uncle of Zerelda ( Zee ) Cobb ( Nancy Kelly ), Jesse's lover, quickly comes to tell them to leave.
He cannot tell if it was far away or nearby.
Many nearby residents and several eyewitness accounts tell that homes and buildings still stand under the water to this day, a watery ghost town.
There are those who believe that a nearby tell is the remains of the biblical town.
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