Kristina Killgrove

An analysis of the origins of seven severed skulls with nails through them shows that some people treated this way in Iron Age Spain were local while others came from afar.

A bog body discovered in Northern Ireland is actually a young woman, not a teenage boy as previously thought.

A mysterious bronze spoon unearthed on the Isle of Man is rare evidence of ancient ritual in Europe.

A metal sword broken into three pieces may be evidence of a Germanic warrior's burial from the Roman Empire.

Spotting artifacts in the U.S. is common, but archaeologists want you to leave them in place.

A small, wooden diorama found in an ancient Egyptian tomb reflects the importance of grain in an agricultural society.

Although many researchers assume that birthday celebrations date back to the ancient Egyptians, the earliest textual evidence of a birthday party proves these annual events are much older.

Remains of a civic basilica give archaeologists clues to what the original layout of Roman London looked like.

A new study of human remains dredged from the Thames River reveals that people frequently deposited corpses there in the Bronze and Iron ages.

Researchers may have found the hidden tunnels beneath a castle in Milan that Leonardo da Vinci sketched in 1495.

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.