Episode 78 - Hasanlu: An Iron Age Whodunnit
In the early first millennium BCE, the city of Hasanlu was destroyed in a single, terrible day. Excavations reveal murdered civilians and a citadel engulfed in fire, but who was responsible for destroying this town on the road to everywhere in Iron Age Western Asia? This week, Anna and Amber tell Hasanlu's story, and of the academic drama that followed its excavation (and continues to this day).
To learn more, check out:
Ḥasanlu Teppe (Encyclopedia Iranica)
Tell (mound) (Encyclopedia Britannica)
Hasanlu in the Iron Age (Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)
Rediscovering Hasanlu (Expedition)
Special Issue: East of Assyria--The Highland Settlement of Hasanlu (Expedition)
The Excavation of Hasanlu: An Archaeological Evaluation (Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research)
Last Day at Hasanlu (Expedition)
Iran's Pompeii: Astounding story of a massacre buried for millennia (New Scientist)
The Hasanlu Lovers (Penn Museum)
Lovers, Friends, or Strangers? New Thoughts on a Museum Icon (Penn Museum)
East of Assyria? Hasanlu and the Problem of Assyrianization (in Imperial Peripheries in the Neo-Assyrian Period)
Warfare at Hasanlu in the Late 9th Century B.C. (Expedition)
Urartu (Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)
Who Destroyed Hasanlu IV? (Iran)
Photo credit: Aerial photo of Hasanlu excavations, public domain.
