The next stop on our tour was Tell Brak, an enormous tell that dwarfs all the others in the area. By this time in the day it was extremely hot, but we trudged to the top anyway. These pictures do not really do justice to the enormity of this site.
Examining sherds at the top of the tell.
The view from the top. There is so much earth in this mound that
archaeologists working here are forced to excavate in the
valleys and eroded areas of the tell, as you can see in the lower right.
Once we made it to the top,
it seemed necessary to run to the bottom.
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