Chagar Bazar is an ancient site in northern Syria, occupied from the sixth to the second millennium BC. It is situated by the small river Dara, a tributary to the Khabur River. Alternative spellings are Tell Chagar Bazar, or Šagir Bazar. The Khabur river (also Habor, Habur) is 200 miles (320 km) long, beginning in southeastern Turkey, and flowing generally south to Syria where it is joined by the Jaghjagh River and eventually empties into Euphrates River. ...

Chagar Bazar was already settled in the Neolithic. Excavations revealed pottery belonging to the Tell Halaf culture. By the Early Bronze Age, in the third millennium BC, Chagar Bazar turned into a small town with the size of 12 hectares / 30 acres. The site appears to have been abandoned by the end of the third millennium BC. It was resettled by Hurrians in the Middle Bronze Age. Fine examples of the Khabur ware pottery dating to this period have been discovered by the excavators. The Neolithic, or New Stone Age, was a period in the development of human technology that is traditionallly the. ... Hunting scene relief in basalt found at Tell Halaf, dated 850-830 BCE Tell Halaf is an archaeological site in the Al Hasakah governorate of northeastern Syria, near the Turkish border. ... The Bronze Age is a period in a civilizations development when the most advanced metalworking has developed the techniques of smelting copper from natural outcroppings and alloys it to cast bronze. ... For the history of the kingdom of Mitanni (1500–1300 BC), see Mitanni. ...

The ancient site was excavated by the British archaeologist Max Mallowan 1935-37. Many of the artefacts discovered were brought to the British Museum. Except pottery a large number of clay tablets written in cuneiform script were discovered. Work was resumed at the site in 1999 by an expedition from the University of Cambridge in cooperation with Belgian archaeologists and the Syrian Department of Antiquities. Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan (6 May 1904 – 19 August 1978) was a prominent archaeologist, specialising in ancient Middle Eastern history, and was also (despite his Roman Catholicism) the second husband of Dame Agatha Christie, who was 14 years his senior. ... The centre of the museum was redeveloped in 2000 to become the Great Court, with a tessellated glass roof by Buro Happold and Foster and Partners surrounding the original Reading Room. ... The cuneiform script is one of the earliest known forms of written expression. ... The University of Cambridge, located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with a reputation as one of the worlds most prestigious universities. ...

See also

• Tell Brak
• Hurrians

Nagar was an ancient pre-Akkadian and Akkadian city on the Khabur River in northeastern Syria which is now represented by the mound named Tell Brak. ... For the history of the kingdom of Mitanni (1500–1300 BC), see Mitanni. ...

External link

• Pottery Khabur Ware Jar from Chagar Bazar in the British Museum.