Chalcolithic, Early Bronze Age, Early Bronze Age I, Early Bronze Age II, Middle Bronze Age, Middle Bronze Age III, Late Bronze Age I, Late Bronze Age, Iron Age, Iron Age I, Iron Age IIB, Hellenistic, Late Hellenistic, Roman, Early Roman, Byzantine, Early Islamic - Umayyad/Abbasid, Early Medieval/Middle Islamic, Later Islamic - Fatimid/Mamluk
Hama is located in Central Western Syria in the Orontes River Valley, which has always served as an important north-south land route parallel to the Mediterranean coast. The excavations revealed around 7400 years of settlement on the mound at Hama, beginning with Stone Age farming communities around 6000 BCE and ending with the destruction of the last major occupation on the mound by the armies of the Mongol conqueror, Tamerlane, in 1401 CE.
