Abstract
During the 1984-1988 excavation campaigns of the combined French Archaeological Mission in Kuwait and the Kuwait National Museum, 12 human skeletons were discovered. They had been interred among the ruins of a pre-Hellenistic Bronze Age building approximately 100 m north of a Hellenistic fortress on the island of Failaka off the coast of Kuwait. Radiocarbon dating showed that the skeletal material dated from the Hellenistic Period. During this period, the island was known by the name of Ikaros. Physical anthropological analysis of the human remains at the Department of Anatomy of Kuwait University revealed that, a single jar burial excepted, the buried men had been Greek/Seleucid soldiers/mercenaries or local warriors/mercenaries. A survey is given of the gross anatomical, ultrastructural and paleopathological findings from these human remains. By far the most interesting conclusions were related to bone changes due to penetrating lesions of the skull, healed fractures, sickle cell anaemia, and bone preservation and decay.
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