On the banks of the Taunton River in Berkley, Massachusetts, there is a small museum with a unique but huge exhibit:a 40-ton rock that was dug out of the river bed and installed here in 1963:the famous Dighton Rock, named after it. from the ancient town of Dighton, where it was found. For centuries
Although they are found in various areas of the Mediterranean, the Domus de Janas they are especially abundant in Sardinia, where they were built by a prenuragic (i.e. pre-Bronze Age) culture called the Ozieri culture , which developed on the island between 3200 and 2800 BC The main religious cente
A new analysis of residues inside ancient 11th-12th century ceramic vessels in Jerusalem has revealed that they could have been used as hand grenades. Previous research on the various sphero-conical vessels, found in museums around the world, had determined that they were used for a variety of purp
For decades, cannabis fruits, fibers, and pollen have turned up in archaeological digs across Europe and Asia. Now a team of researchers from the Free University of Berlin has created a database with all these records, and after analyzing them they propose the theory that the use of cannabis began 1