tell leilan造句

• Tell Leilan is located about 50km to the east of Urkesh.
• Evidence from Tell Leilan in Northern Mesopotamia shows what may have happened.
• The mound of Tell Leilan is being excavated by a team of archaeologists from Yale University.
• Finds from the excavations at Tell Leilan are on display in the Deir ez-Zor Museum.
• Weiss has directed the Yale University Tell Leilan Project's excavations and surveys in northeastern Syria since 1978.
• And once he made the drought connection at Tell Leilan, he began turning up clues to the catastrophe everywhere he looked.
• Among many important discoveries at Tell Leilan is an archive of 1100 cuneiform clay tablets maintained by the rulers of the city.
• The conquest of the region by Shamshi-Adad I ( 1813 1781 BC ) of Assyria revived the abandoned site of Tell Leilan.
• Weiss'hints of climate-associated calamity came from a survey of his principal excavation site, a buried city in northeastern Syria called Tell Leilan.
• After four centuries of urban life, this abrupt climatic change evidently caused abandonment of Tell Leilan, regional desertion, and collapse of the Akkadian empire based in southern Mesopotamia.
• Among the important sites of this period are Tell Brak ( Nagar ), Tell Mozan, Tell Leilan and Chagar Bazar in the Jezirah and Mari on the middle Euphrates.
• Tell Leilan ( rhymes with " Ceylon " ) was one of three major cities on the Habur Plains to be taken over by the Akkadian Empire around 2300 B . C.
• Weiss had asked Marie-Agnes Courty of the National Center for Scientific Research in France to examine the ancient soils of Tell Leilan to help him understand the agricultural development of the region.
• Research at Tell Leilan in northern Syria has convinced Weiss that a long, harsh drought caused the collapse of once-vibrant urban cultures in Mesopotamia and Syria, beginning about 2200 B . C.
• Since Akkad ( or Agade ), the capital of the Akkadian Empire, has not yet been found, available chronological data comes from outlying locations like Ebla, Tell Brak, Nippur, Susa and Tell Leilan.
• "' Tell Leilan "'is an archaeological site situated near the Wadi Jarrah in the Khabur River basin in Al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria, a region formerly a part of ancient Assyria.
• But now the evidence of Tell Leilan, and recent findings of elevated dust deposits in sea-cores collected off Oman, that date to the period of Akkad's collapse suggest that this climate change may have played a role.
• The excavators at nearby Tell Leilan ( ancient Shekhna / Shubat-Enlil ) have used the results from their investigations to argue that the Akkadian Empire came to an end due to a sudden drought, the so-called 4.2 kiloyear event.
• Shamshi-Adad I inherited the throne in Terqa c . 1833 BCE . He was forced to flee to Babylon c . 1823 BCE . He remained in exile until c . 1815 BCE . He first conquered Ekallatum, and then Assur after overthrowing King Erishum II ( " fl . " " c . " 1815 BCE  " c . " 1808 BCE . ) Shamshi-Adad I took over the long-abandoned town of Shekhna ( today known as Tell Leilan ), converted it into the capital city of the Old Assyrian Empire, and then renamed it " Shubat-Enlil " ( Akkadian ) meaning: