Tell Begum is a tell, or archaeological settlement mound, in

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and K ...

. It is located near

Said Sadiq Said Sadiq (; ) is a city in the Sulaymaniyah Governorate, in the Kurdistan Region, Iraq. The nearby archaeological site of Tell Begum Tell Begum is a tell, or archaeological settlement mound, in Iraq. It is located near Said Sadiq in the Shah ...

in the Shahrizor Plain in

Iraqi Kurdistan Iraqi Kurdistan or Southern Kurdistan ( ku, باشووری کوردستان, Başûrê Kurdistanê) refers to the Kurdish-populated part of northern Iraq. It is considered one of the four parts of "Kurdistan" in Western Asia, which also inc ...

. The

archaeological site An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology a ...

consists of a steep conical mound high, and a lower mound. It covers an area of . The site was first investigated in 1960 by a team of Iraqi archaeologists. In 2013, a new excavation was carried out by archaeologists from Leiden University. This project restudied the older excavations and also conducted limited new excavations. The oldest excavated layers date to Late Halaf period. After an apparent hiatus in occupation, the site was resettled in the Late Chalcolithic 1 (LC1) period and continued to be in use into the Late Chalcolithic 3 (LC3) period (4300-3600 BC). Medieval occupation has also been attested.

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Archaeological sites in Iraq Sulaymaniyah Governorate Halaf culture Ubaid period Tells (archaeology) {{DEFAULTSORT:Begum