Kristina Killgrove

A novel genetic model suggests that the ancestors of modern humans came from two distinct populations that split and reconnected during our evolutionary history.

A monumental tomb found near Corinth has revealed several burials, along with artifacts reflecting its later use as a healing shrine.

Fragments of the left side of the skull of a human relative have been discovered in Spain, revealing the face of the oldest human ancestor ever discovered in Western Europe.

A Jewish ritual bath known as a mikvah discovered in Ostia Antica is more than 1,500 years old.

More than 800 years ago, a Russian boy named Onfim sketched himself on his schoolwork.

Researchers used a novel method of radiocarbon dating to figure out the age of the Lapedo child, who had both Neanderthal and human traits.

The skeleton of a Stone Age child discovered in Thailand is rewriting what experts know about the prehistory of the area.

The discovery of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools upends what we know about tool manufacturing in East Africa.

Archaeologists in Denmark have discovered the remains of a large timber circle that may be contemporaneous with England's Woodhenge and Stonehenge.

Yup'ik masks: Carvings depicting distorted spirits' faces dreamed up by shamans in Alaska