From Japan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist’s Out of Eden Walk marks 12 years, with North America on the horizon.

Babylonian kings routinely sacrificed royal stand-ins to avoid eclipse prophecies. From the museum's collection of 130,000 ...

Ella Jeffries is an editorial intern with Smithsonian magazine. The death of a Louisiana resident who was over the age of 65 signals that future H5N1 infections are not guaranteed to be mild, health e ...

Archeologists Stumble on 1,500-Year-Old Roman Coffin as Heavy as a Small Caravan by Road, Casket Weighed Around 1653 Pounds A ...

In the ruins of Shivta, an ancient and small Byzantine village located in the arid Negev Desert, researchers discovered a ...

The process requires a bit of imagination: students are digging in miniature with long sundae spoons, tea strainers, and tiny ...

Understanding the inner workings of our planet has always been a fascinating challenge for scientists. Now, a team of ...

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Archaeologists in southern France unearthed a late Neolithic burial site in Puisserguier containing the skeleton of an adult woman, aged between 20 and 49 years, raising questions about the ...

Incoming Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune will commit to protecting the filibuster in his opening remarks, and he ...

The demand for Iranian Iron Age weapons began after a large cache of bronze and iron weapons was discovered in the western Iranian province of Luristan in the late 1920s.