Kristina Killgrove

A silver amulet found in a 1,800-year-old grave in Germany speaks to the importance — and the risk — of being Christian in Roman times.

Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, enslaved hundreds of people. Archaeologists have discovered where 28 of them were buried.

An analysis of genomes from some of the earliest modern humans to live in Europe reveals their ancestors interbred with Neanderthals in one period between 43,000 and 50,000 years ago.

Human bones discovered in a house that burned down 5,700 years ago are providing archaeologists "CSI"-style clues about the deaths of seven people in prehistoric Ukraine.

The sixth-century burial of an Anglo-Saxon teenage girl surprised archaeologists when they discovered a small third-century Roman goblet full of pig fat near her head.

A wood and leather shield dating to around A.D. 250 is one of only a few complete Roman scuta ever found.

Spoon-like metal objects attached to Roman-era belts may represent drug dosing equipment, researchers suggest.

An extremely rare gold coin featuring Brutus, who helped spearhead Julius Caesar's assassination, is up for auction in December.

At least 15 human skulls at a Neolithic site in Italy may represent the group's collective ancestors, although archaeologists aren't certain.

Researchers have named a new species in the Homo genus. What do we know about these "big headed" people?

A small clay tablet from the site of Kish in Iraq reveals a student calculated the area of a triangle incorrectly 4,000 years ago.

Archaeologists in Denmark have recovered dozens of lances, spears, swords and knives along with a set of chainmail from an Iron Age chieftain's house.

A set of footprints found at the site of Koobi Fora in Kenya reveals that our ancestor Homo erectus coexisted with a now-extinct bipedal hominin, Paranthropus boisei, 1.5 million years ago.

Authorities in Florida have recovered 37 coins worth over $1 million stolen from an 18th-century Spanish shipwreck.

Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our evolutionary history.

This stunning blue mask may represent the Aztec cycle of death and renewal.

Brain scans of modern listeners suggest that Aztec whistles sound like human screams, which may have prepared sacrifice victims for their journey to the underworld.

Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how this iconic species lived and died.

Lucy lived in a wide range of habitats from northern Ethiopia to northern Kenya. Researchers now believe she wasn't the only australopithecine species there.

An analysis looking at the hand bones of australopithecines, apes and humans reveals that tool use likely evolved before the Homo genus arose.

Complicated births may not have arisen in humans as a trade-off between our need for big brains and pelvises suitable for upright walking, new research in chimps suggests.

A skeleton buried in a fetal position is actually made of bones from at least five people who lived across a span of 2,500 years.

At an Iron Age cemetery in Sweden, archaeologists discovered an unusual grave of a woman interred with an iron folding knife stuck into her burial.

Archaeologists in Sweden were expecting to find an ancient settlement, but they were surprised to discover a Viking Age cemetery with boat-shaped burial outlines.

It's possible that the wheel was invented by copper miners in the Carpathian Mountains up to 6,000 years ago, according to a modeling study that uses techniques from structural mechanics.