The Prehistoric Spanish Cave of Drugs, Death and Fun! Or, the Clan of the Cave Hair?

This Week in the Ancient Near East

A burial cave on the Western Mediterranean island of Minorca dating to 1000 BCE contained 200 individuals and wooden boxes of dyed human hairs. The hairs were full of drugs, which leads our contestants to ask just what kind of parties were going on down there and why we weren’t invited. A few flashbacks to the 1970s result.

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