After a proposal to restore the floor of the Colosseum by archaeologist Daniele Manacorda, Italian culture minister Dario Francheschini supports the idea.
As a service to the wider archaeological community, English Heritage is making out of print monographs available as ebooks and as PDFs which can be accessed for free.
Dr Despina Pilides (Curator of Antiquities – Acting Director, Department of Antiquities Cyprus) will give a lecture about the new excavations at Agios Sozomenos, as part of the Cyprus Seminar series, which is organised by the Museum of Cycladic Arts, Athens.
A new study of the so-called "fierce people" led by provocative anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon suggests how violence and cooperation can go hand-in-hand.
The first lecture of this year's Mycenaean Seminar series will be given by Dr. Eleni Konsolaki, Honorary Director of the 26th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities.
The Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports released an unedited footage showing the revealing of the mosaic. At this point there are no answers to the mystery of the tomb on Casta Hill.
In the southern Peruvian Andes, University of Maine archaeologists have documented the highest altitude ice age human occupation anywhere in the world.
Roman gladiators ate a mostly vegetarian diet and drank ashes after training as a tonic, recent anthropological investigations carried out on bones of warriors revealed.
By analysing ancient DNA scientists have identified that Europeans remained intolerant to lactose for 5,000 years after they adopted agricultural practices.
MicroPasts launches a crowd-funding section for the platform to support archaeological and historical research involving collaborations between community organisations and academic institutions.