Kristina Killgrove

An analysis of around a dozen teenagers who lived during the Paleolithic reveals that they hit puberty around the same time modern teens do.

A new ecological model suggests Neanderthals and modern humans interbred in the Zagros Mountains in what is now Iran before going their separate ways 80,000 years ago.

Braving the cold weather required Neanderthals to have robust bodies and to know how to make fire. But did they wear clothes?

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Roman military structure in Turkey dating to the fourth century, when Emperor Constantius II ruled.

An ancient temple made by Arabian immigrants from the Nabataean culture has finally been found off the Italian coast near Naples.

It's possible that the wheel was invented by copper miners in the Carpathian Mountains up to 6,000 years ago, according to a modeling study that uses techniques from structural mechanics.

An ancient temple made by Arabian immigrants from the Nabataean culture has finally been found off the Italian coast

Archaeologists in Sweden were expecting to find an ancient settlement, but they were surprised to discover a Viking Age cemetery with boat-shaped burial outlines.

An ancient temple made by Arabian immigrants from the Nabataean culture has finally been found off the Italian coast

At an Iron Age cemetery in Sweden, archaeologists discovered an unusual grave of a woman interred with an iron folding knife stuck into her burial.