Kristina Killgrove

Archaeologists at Sutton Hoo, a 1,400-year-old boat burial in England, have discovered pieces of a broken bucket from the Byzantine Empire.

Archaeologists have discovered the homestead of Pompey, a formerly enslaved man from West Africa who was elected "king" by his community in the 1700s.

Aboriginal artifacts in Australia that were likely used for ritual spells may be evidence of the oldest culturally transmitted ritual on record.

A bridge that collapsed 2,000 years ago in what is now Switzerland may have fallen on Celtic sacrifice victims, a new study finds.

Easter Island never had a catastrophic population collapse, researchers propose in a new study that looks at archaeological rock gardens.

Archaeologists in Peru have discovered two 16th-century toddler burials with evidence of smallpox, indicating that the foreign illness spread quickly with European contact.

Archaeologists in Crete have discovered a 4,000-year-old structure that the Minoans may have used for rituals.

Ancient DNA of nearly 500 horses reveals that humans didn't domesticate them until 2200 B.C., 1,000 years later than we previously thought.

The early Celts may have inherited power through their mother's side, according to an ancient DNA analysis of lavish burials in Europe.

Baltic pagans imported horses to be sacrificed from their Christian neighbors around 1,000 years ago.

The languages of the earliest Americans evolved in 4 waves, according to one expert.

Researchers reconstructed the relationships among nearly 300 Avars, people from a 1,500-year-old mysterious warrior culture in the Carpathian Basin.

Archaeologists have discovered the burial of a woman with a rare "porcelain gallbladder" who was interred at the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum's cemetery 100 years ago.

A new DNA study of living and historical members of the Blackfoot Confederacy in the U.S. and Canada suggests that they share a lineage with people from the last ice age.

Archaeologists aren't sure why a lynx and four dogs were buried together in Hungary around 1,500 years ago.

After early humans traveled out of Africa 70,000 years ago, they had a "hub" on the so-called Persian plateau, a new study suggests.

Archaeologists found a 600-year-old castle with a moat in Brittany, France.

The earliest settlers of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, appear to have had some sort of contact with people from South America as early as 1,000 years ago, a new plant study finds.

Ancient DNA from some of Europe's last hunter-gatherers reveals that they avoided inbreeding.

Excavations at the medieval Beaumont Abbey in France have revealed nearly 800 years of history before the French Revolution shut it down.

A farmer in Bulgaria accidentally discovered two graves of a wealthy Roman-era family, but they appear to tell "a sad family story."

A new look at a 5,000-year-old bog body from Denmark suggests that the individual may have been an itinerant flint trader who was sacrificed by hostile locals.

A look at two Neanderthal skeletons reveals that they could get tuberculosis, and it may have contributed to their extinction.

Scientists uncovered the oldest-ever genome of bacteria in the same family as syphilis.