Sheba: Through the Desert in Search of the Legendary Queen, Nicholas Clapp, pp. 171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002, ISBN 978-0-618-21926-1, ... A tell is a sizable mound created by successive settlements that, over time, rise higher and higher on their accumulated refuse and collapsed structures. The use of mud brick accelerates the buildup, for even when a single story falls to ruin, it creates three of more vertical feet of debris ...
Introducing Archaeology, Robert James Muckle, pp. 70, University of Toronto Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-55111-505-4, ... Tell is a term commonly used to describe mounds that have been created by successive settlements in western Asia and northern Africa ...
