Rauf M. Munchaev*, Shakhmardan N. Amirov*, Rabadan G. Magomedov**

*Institute of Archaeology of RAS, Moscow (shahmardan@mail.ru)
**Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Dagestan Scientific Centre of RAS, Makhachkala

Key words: Northern Mesopotamia, Khaburskaya steppe, Tel Khazna, Tel Aylin.

The article presents the works of the archaeological expedition of the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2010 in Syria during which necessary research and conservation works in Tel Khazna I, wide reconnaissance and topographical survey in Tel Aylin were carried out. The excavation season of 2010 became the last season of the expedition undertaken before the Civil War in Syria.