The 2,800-year-old Hasanlu Lovers were found in a bin in Iran. The two skeletons buried in ground appear to kiss each other. Other than the gender dispute, historians are not sure why they came to be in the bin – perhaps they were hiding during the final sacking of Hasanlu.
The 2,800-year-old Hasanlu Lovers were found in a bin in Iran
The 2,800-year-old Hasanlu Lovers were found in a bin in Iran
In 2007, the Italian archaeologist Elena Maria Menotti, leading an excavation in a Neolithic tomb of necropolis (S. Giorgio, Mantua, N. Italy) / dated to 5,000 – 4,000 B.C.E., discovered this pair of skeletons (along with an arrowhead and tools), a pair and a woman no older than 20 years and approximately 5’2” in height. After being removed from the ground intact were sent to Museo Civici (Como) for further research. Later on, they had been exhibited in the Archaeological Museum of Mantua, looking for their permanent home.
The skeletons do not show signs of violent death, thus few hypotheses have been made (e.g. they died together holding each other in a freezing night; they had been put together after their death).
