Kristina Killgrove

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.

This wafer-thin wooden tablet from a first-century Roman fort in the U.K. includes a heartfelt birthday party invitation.

By digitally modeling muscles and tendons for the skeleton of Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis), researchers determined that our hominin ancestors could run well but topped out around 11 mph.

A genetic analysis of six people buried in a Moche tomb around A.D. 500 revealed that two teenagers were sacrificed to their close relatives.

A lyre in a treasure-laden royal tomb discovered in Mesopotamia is the earliest stringed instrument ever found.

Paleogenomics has finally solved a question that has puzzled researchers for decades: Where did syphilis come from?

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

The sacrifices could be an early form of a Scythian burial tradition that lasted for hundreds of years.

DIY-ers in northern Holland filled a large gap in a tile floor with precisely sliced cow bones several centuries ago.

The extremely violent treatment of the corpses of at least 37 Bronze Age people is rewriting the history of prehistoric Britain.

Fragments of a helmet recovered from the Sutton Hoo ship burial show that early-medieval metalwork could be decorative and functional.

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.