Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago

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The site of Tepe Hasanlu in Iran is famous for its so-called Lovers, two skeletons found appearing to be locked in an eternal embrace 🫂

But did you know the site is one of the most thoroughly excavated Iron Age sites in this region? It was a major local centre of commerce and artistic production with close ties to other political and creative centres of the Near East during the early first millennium BCE

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