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).
Links
Special Issue: East of Assyria--The Highland Settlement of Hasanlu (Expedition)
Iran's Pompeii: Astounding story of a massacre buried for millennia (New Scientist)
Lovers, Friends, or Strangers? New Thoughts on a Museum Icon (Penn Museum)
Warfare at Hasanlu in the Late 9th Century B.C. (Expedition)