Reserchars believe that the lady's fellow Inca demonstrated a uniquely practical way of thinking, choosing her as an offering as her death was certain due to her poor health.
"The State in the Balkans: Public Service Institutions, their Role and Development. Balkan Futures Workshop II" will be held at the British School at Athens, on March 6-7 2014.
As the University of Leicester proceeds with sequencing Richard's III DNA, the groups of amateur enthusiasts who triggered the quest leading to the body's discovery raise claims on the late King's present and future.
The 4th meeting of the Mycenaean Seminar. Professor Clairy Palyvou will give a lecture on the “Principles of spatial organization in Minoan and Mycenaean architecture.”
"Ancient colour was very subtle, very sophisticated, very versatile but it functioned along different parameters from how we think colour works", says Nottingham researcher Mark Bradley.
Floods swept detritus and sediment across the area of Venice in the 5th century AD, rendering the ancient structures of Iulia Concordia inaccessible and invisible for 1500 years.
Many inhabitants of the Roman Empire are known to have died, denouncing polytheism, as being Christian. But what if one had accepted to sacrifice to the idols, following the imperial command?
Archaeologists have started test excavations at Carrickfergus Castle in Co Antrim, Northern Ireland (UK), aiming to find out more about the 800-year-old fortification.
Archaeologists who examined the hoard say this might be the largest and most important collection of Late Antiquity artefacts ever found in a German site. It is estimated that the collection as a whole worth more than €1 million.
The bodies discovered are believed to date back to the early Saxon period and included both men and women, young and old, and in many cases adorned with precious objects
On 21 January 2014 the Rectorate of Leipzig University announced without prior notice that it will close the Institut für Klassische Archäologie in Leipzig. German archaeologists have launched a petition against this "destructive" decision.
Did the habits of consumption at the Tholos require sophisticated social competence like that needed to succeed at elite symposia? Lecture about the dining customs of the Prytaneis in the Athenian Agora.
A sunken city in China is to become an underwater archaeological site after authorities found its impressive ruins were surviving in good condition underwater, 60 years after its demise.
Destruction of cultural heritage in Syria goes on by individuals engaging in vandalisms regardless of religious, ethnic or political identity, although such identities are often stated as the reason behind certain incidents.
Biblical records mentioning the location of Philistines far from their historic homeland along the shores of southern Israel (I Samuel 31) are often seen as a seeming anomaly in the Bible. However, the new finds come to support the opposite.
The 33rd Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities of Preveza and Arta and the Archaeological Museum of Arta present the exhibit of the month: a statuette of Artemis.
The deceased appears to have been strong and physically active but her oral hyhiene was poor. Her burial, accompanied with a clay beaker shows the region's importance during the Bronze Age.