Qualla: Teppe Hasanlu https://qualla.com/teppe-hasanlu en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:31 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/t/n/8/6/teppe-hasanlu-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Teppe Hasanlu https://qualla.com/teppe-hasanlu Teppe Hasanlu: Introduction https://qualla.com/teppe-hasanlu/ Photo credit Emtadbir, CC BY-SA 4.0. Two skeletons lie together on the floor of a burned building, their arms wrapped around each other. They have been in this position for nearly three thousand years. Known as the Hasanlu Lovers, they are among the most haunting artifacts ever recovered from the ancient Near East -- not because of their age or their gold, but because of what they suggest about the final hours of a city that died in fire. Around 800 BC, an army -- probably Urartian -- sacked and burned Teppe Hasanlu, a fortified city south of Lake Urmia in what is now northwestern Iran. The destruction was so complete, and so sudden, that it preserved the city in a state archaeologists have compared to Pompeii.

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/n/8/6/teppe-hasanlu-wp/tn86-teppe-hasanlu-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Teppe Hasanlu: The Citadel on the Plain https://qualla.com/teppe-hasanlu/ Photo credit Fabienkhan, CC BY-SA 2.5. Hasanlu Tepe dominates the Solduz plain in the Gadar River valley of West Azerbaijan Province. The site consists of a central citadel mound rising 25 meters above the surrounding terrain, ringed by massive fortifications and paved streets, with a lower outer town standing 8 meter...

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/n/8/6/teppe-hasanlu-wp/tn86-teppe-hasanlu-the-citadel-on-the-plain.mp3 0:06 2 full Teppe Hasanlu: The Golden Bowl and What It Revealed https://qualla.com/teppe-hasanlu/ Photo credit Mahdi Zavar مهدی زوار, CC BY 4.0. Sir Aurel Stein first excavated Hasanlu in 1936, but systematic work began in 1956 under Robert H. Dyson Jr. of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, in partnership with the Metropolitan Museum. The project was intended to reconstruct regional cultural history from Neolithic tim...

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/n/8/6/teppe-hasanlu-wp/tn86-teppe-hasanlu-the-golden-bowl-and-what-it-revealed.mp3 0:06 3 full Teppe Hasanlu: The Day the City Burned https://qualla.com/teppe-hasanlu/ Photo credit Uwe Dedering, CC BY-SA 3.0. The catastrophe came at the end of the Iron II period, around 800 BC. Excavators found over 285 human victims where they had been slain. Some had been mutilated. The distribution of bodies and wounds suggests mass executions. Amid the charred remains of buildings, thousands of ob...

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/n/8/6/teppe-hasanlu-wp/tn86-teppe-hasanlu-the-day-the-city-burned.mp3 0:06 4 full Teppe Hasanlu: Ancestors Without a Name https://qualla.com/teppe-hasanlu/ Photo credit Amin gholizad at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Who lived at Hasanlu? The question has occupied scholars for decades. No written records have been found at the site. Archaeological evidence has linked it variously to Hurrian, Urartian, and Median cultural spheres. A 2022 genetic study by Iosif Lazaridis and colleagues added a ...

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