Travel Guide Tell Leïlan

It is located after 2 km from a bad track that is located near a railway station, not far from the Aleppo-Mosul axis borrowed from the southern exit of Qamishli.The tell, with acropolis and lower town, covers nearly 100 ha. He is now inhabited by villagers. The mission of the University of Yales, led by H. Weiss, highlighted among the 61 successive layers ranging from the Obeid era to the beginning of the Second millennium, two short but brilliant periods: the third millennium emerges from a city-state, with its fortified Acropolis and low town; a second faste period in the th century B.C., with Tell Leïlan as the capital of kingdom, is attested by the discovery on the acropolis, north of the saying, of a temple with twisted columns.