Why humans left their African homeland 80,000 years ago to colonize the world
The Natural History Museum's quartz cranium highlights the epic silliness of the new Indiana Jones movie
Footprints at one of the nation's oldest—and most fought over—fossil beds offer new clues to how the behemoths lived
A modern museum of ancient Greece rises near the Parthenon
Restoration of the 2,500-year-old temple is yielding new insights into the engineering feats of the golden age's master builders
On his voyage to the Americas in 1492, the explorer built a small fort somewhere in the Caribbean
Polar species heat up one of paleontology's great debates
How did they endure months of perpetual cold and dark?
Paleontologist William Hammer hunts dinosaur fossils in the Antarctic
The ten most significant discoveries in the past 20 years
Discovering the grandeur of the monument built 3,400 years ago
Two fossils found in Kenya raise evolutionary questions
New evidence reveals a city beneath ancient Alexandria
Archaeologists unveil a 3-D model of the great city circa A.D. 400
Stabiae's seaside villas will soon be resurrected in one of the largest archaeological projects in Europe since World War II
Zhou Daguan, part of a group of diplomats from China that lived in Angkor from 1296 to 1297, recorded his thoughts on the area
Why did humans first turn from nomadic wandering to villages and togetherness? The answer may lie in a 9,500-year-old settlement in central Turkey
In the Smithsonian's long history of studying cultures, we've learned to help people represent themselves
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