Joseph Hackin

Joseph Hackin (8 November 1886, Boevange-sur-Attert – 24 February 1941) was a French archaeologist and Resistance member.

During the excavations conducted by Hackin and his team in Begram, between 1937 and 1940, an exceptional treasure of the Kushan period (1st–2nd century A.D.) was unearthed.

It included a large number of Roman bronze, alabaster, Syrian glass, coins, Chinese lacquer bowls, and the famous "Begram ivories".

[2] In October 1940, with his wife, Marie Hackin, he joined the Free French Forces in London.

He perished with his wife when their transport ship, "Jonathan Holt", was sunk by a German torpedo near the Faroe Islands, 24 February 1941.