Kristina Killgrove

Archaeologists aren't sure why prehistoric people in Japan made these elaborate vessels decorated with flames.

Dozens of fractures in a medieval skeleton found buried near a castle suggest the person may have been killed by a direct trebuchet hit.

A small church discovered beneath a larger one may have hosted one of the most important meetings in the history of Christianity, but some scholars not involved with the excavation disagree.

Stone tools from a lakeside site in Saudi Arabia hint that Neanderthals were adapted to the arid Arabian interior, not just to cold places.

An Iron Age grave has been discovered in the Scottish Highlands. The person was buried within what may have been a ritual well.

A mysterious burial in an underground water channel may help archaeologists understand a pre-Inca ritual in Peru.

Researchers found 120 ancient inscriptions referring to a mysterious goddess known as "the Lady" in a cave in Valencia, Spain.

A rare example of a wooden chamber tomb reveals connections between medieval Norse and Old Russian burial styles.

Archaeologists in Russia have unearthed a rare wooden tomb containing the remains of an elite man who was buried with a horse and a dog.

This monumental carving depicts a powerful Maya queen called Lady K'abel, who ruled an ancient city in Guatemala at the end of the seventh century.