Kristina Killgrove

A tiny head carved from mammoth ivory looks back at us from the Stone Age.

A study of Paleolithic skeletons from Central Europe suggests people's teeth were worn down and crowded together because of cheek piercings.

Footprints from people and animals feeling the eruption of Vesuvius in 1995 B.C. were recently discovered in a town near Pompeii.

A miniature gold lock dated to the third to fourth centuries was found by a metal detectorist in Germany.

A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.

A hoard of over 400 coins dated to the first century is a rare mix of Roman and British money.

The unusual burial of a woman and fetus in prehistoric Ecuador may reflect the community's fear of her power.

A long roll of cloth embroidered with key scenes from British history is a unique medieval chronicle.

Organisms from three different natural kingdoms battle it out for the title "deadliest food."

Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood group systems.

A lavish 9,000-year-old grave in central Germany revealed the burial of a powerful female shaman.

Researchers discovered long-lost computer code and used it to resurrect the early chatbot ELIZA.

Hundreds of stone artifacts discovered on a Danish island may have been offered to the gods to ward off a climate crisis.

An analysis of dozens of British Iron Age skeletons has revealed that Celtic society was organized around women.

Excavation of a Roman-era cemetery in France yielded nearly two dozen lead tablets inscribed in Latin and Gaulish.

A new method for imaging tattoos reveals intricate designs on Chancay mummies from Peru.

A woman buried with archery equipment in 10th-century Hungary is unusual but may not necessarily have been a warrior.

This anthropomorphic clay tablet was likely used in an ancient ritual by the Jōmon culture in Japan.

A cutting-edge analysis of a skull found in Turkey in 1929 proves once and for all that it is not Arsinoë IV, Cleopatra's half sister.

A cache of precious metal regalia recently discovered in a Lithuanian cathedral sheds light on medieval royalty.

A canine baculum (penis bone) covered in red ochre may be from a long-lost Romano-British ritual.

This marble statuette is emblematic of Ptolemaic-era art: a mishmash of styles with a decidedly Egyptian twist.

Researchers developed a more precise method of understanding ancestry from ancient DNA and used it to identify previously unknown waves of migration.