Tell Tayinat (ancient Kunulua) is a large archaeological mound located at the northern bend of the Orontes River, approximately 30 km east of Antakya (ancient Antioch) in southeast Turkey. As the royal capital of a succession of historically attested Bronze and Iron Age kingdoms (ca. 3200-600 BCE), Tayinat has been an important bellwether of social and cultural change. The University of Toronto's Tayinat Archaeological Project (TAP) has been exploring Tayinat since 1999. The TAP investigations seek to document Tayinat's exceptional cultural record, while contributing to the study of early social complexity and the rise of the first state ordered societies in the ancient world.

Donations to the Tayinat Archaeological Project are greatly appreciated and can be made to the Friends of Tayinat Trust

For more information about the Tayinat Archaeological Project please contact: tayinat@utoronto.ca