Rescue excavations in southeastern Turkey at the site of the Ilisu Dam uncovered an Assyrian governor’s palace dating to 900 to 700 B.C. Five elaborate cremation burials and 20 bronze vessels were discovered beneath the stones of its courtyard. A mound atop a Bronze Age cremation burial was found in Bulgaria. The ashes had been […]

In an article published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, Quetta Kaye of University College London, and Scott Fitzpartrick of North Carolina State University, say that the bowls and tubes they found on the Caribbean island of Carriacou were used to inhale hallucinogenic drugs between 400 and 100 B.C. Construction of Fort Phillip began in […]