Kristina Killgrove

These carved snow goggles were a necessary accessory for Arctic existence centuries ago.

A study of skeletons from a cave in Poland has revealed widespread evidence of cut marks and fractures suggestive of cannibalism.

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies.

The discovery of an 11,000-year-old village in Saskatchewan could rewrite Indigenous history in central Canada.

More than a quarter million beads found in a tomb with female skeletons were used to decorate the women's ceremonial dresses, suggesting they were powerful leaders five millennia ago.

Archaeologists in Denmark have recovered dozens of lances, spears, swords, knives, chain mail and a Roman helmet from an Iron Age chieftain's house.

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.