Kristina Killgrove

A modern dating method has revealed the oldest Homo sapiens' footprints yet, placing bipedal humans in South Africa around 153,000 years ago.

A fecal analysis from two toilets dating to biblical times in Jerusalem has revealed the oldest evidence yet of the parasite that causes dysentery.

Around 8,000 years ago, Middle Eastern hunters carved to-scale plans of their 'desert kite' traps onto rocks.

Fossilized dental plaque from archaic humans is revealing extinct bacteria that could lead to the development of new medicine.

Cosmic rays have revealed an underground Greek tomb in Naples, Italy.

Archaeologists have unearthed 500-year-old 'urine flasks' at a medical dump within Caesar's forum in Rome.

A new look at eight skeletons from two Pictish cemeteries reveals that the enigmatic Picts weren't from afar, as medieval historians suggested, but that they had local roots.

Scotland's oldest true tartan dates to between 1500 and 1600.

Indigenous oral histories and archaeological evidence are rewriting the story of how horses came to the American West.

Archaeologists have found a trove of artifacts, including two statues of the goddess Venus, in a Roman-era quarry-turned-trash-dump.

A 2,000-year-old tomb discovered in Turkey was sprinkled with "dead nails" and sealed off with bricks and plaster, likely to "shield the living from the dead."

A new analysis of the famous Colchester vase indicates that gladiators fought in Roman Britain during the second century A.D.

A 2,000-year-old Celtic bronze figure with a hinged phallus is going to auction this week in the U.K.

The world's first horseback riders swept across the steppe roughly 5,000 years ago, a new skeletal analysis of tombs across Europe and Asia reveals.

Byzantine earrings and an Islamic-style coin were found by a town key to Viking trade in Germany.

Archaeologists have found ancient Roman "barbed wire," famously used and written about by Julius Caesar, for the first time near a German silver mine.

A highly significant find, this 14th-century synagogue is a rare example of Jewish religious life in medieval Spain.

Archaeological work ahead of a rehabilitation project at a Gettysburg battlefield revealed an unexploded artillery shell from the Civil War.

A Viking cemetery in England doesn't just hold the cremated remains of these warriors but also the beloved animals they brought from Scandinavia.

Once played in by local children, a vast tunnel that goes through a hill in Naples, Italy, is actually a Roman aqueduct, archaeologists say.

In 2013, South Carolinians made the unexpected discovery of a Colonial-era cemetery holding the remains of enslaved people. Now, a genetic analysis of some of these individuals reveals their origins.

Stone Age dots, lines and Y-shaped marks might represent a type of proto-writing created by hunter-gatherers who lived in Europe at least 20,000 years ago.

An analysis into finger-painted skulls found in Peru, some from individuals who died up to a millennium ago, reveals that people painted their ancestors' skeletal remains.

Remains of two wealthy men — one clergy and the other young and noble — have been discovered in the lead sarcophagi found buried at Notre Dame.

Archaeologists in England were surprised to discover an elaborate cross with human faces and a gold-and-garnet necklace in an early medieval burial.