# Tell Umm el-Marra, Syria, Early Bronze Age Results: Final Excavation Report **PUBLISHED 2024.** Please view the [**publication's webpage**](/publications/animals-ancestors-and-ritual-early-bronze-age-syria-elite-mortuary-complex). Excavations at Umm el-Marra (ancient Tuba?) in the Jabbul plain east of Aleppo (36° 08' North, 37°41' East), conducted by the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Amsterdam 1994-2010, have provided important information on the flourishing urban civilization of Early Bronze Age (ca. 3000-2000 BC) western Syria. A complex of ten monumental elite tombs on the site acropolis, together with the sacrificial installations of buried equids and human infants, supplies a unique and sizeable set of data on elite ideologies and elite mortuary rituals, including ancestor veneration and animal sacrifice. The publication of the third-millennium BC results from Umm el-Marra will offer an important contribution to our understanding of early Syrian urban societies. The publication project is directed by [**Dr. Glenn Schwartz**](/people/glenn-schwartz). \*PROJECT FUNDING GENEROUSLY PROVIDED BY THE GETTY FOUNDATION\* ![Gold plaquettes, lapis lazuli amulet, ivory “combs” from Umm el-Marra tombs](/sites/g/files/omnuum3196/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/whitelevy/files/tell_umm_el-marra_2_full.jpg?itok=SLzfKE2o) Gold plaquettes, lapis lazuli amulet, ivory “combs” from Umm el-Marra tombs ![tell_umm_el-marra_Tomb_1_full.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum3196/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/whitelevy/files/tell_umm_el-marra_1_full.jpg?itok=l06y9Ws9) Tell Umm el-Marra Tomb 1 ![tell_umm_el-marra_topographic_map](/sites/g/files/omnuum3196/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/whitelevy/files/tell_umm_el-marra_map_full.jpg?itok=lINMGdXZ) Tell Umm el-Marra topographic map See also:- [ 2017 Sponsored Projects ](/grants-year/2017) - [ Levant - Northern ](/sponsored-projects-area/levant-northern) - [ Mesopotamia ](/sponsored-projects-area/mesopotamia)