Special software helped reveal the words on a burned scroll found inside a holy ark near the Dead Sea
Take a drive on Route 66 and encounter the wonders of the road
Lab experiments suggest that a strange synchronization of pendulum clocks observed in the 1600s can be chalked up to acoustic energy
Even today you can visit the site where groups such as R.E.M. found a true artistic genius
Smithsonian Journeys Travel Quarterly: Inca Road
Native to northern Peru and southern Ecuador, this tiny and rapidly vanishing tomato boasts outsized influence on world gastronomy
The new genetic analysis takes aim at the theory that just one founding group settled the Americas
Pat Oliphant's searing sketches cross party lines. But the portraits are all in good clean fun...or are they?
On the 46th anniversary of the historic moonwalk, the spacesuit that made it possible is headed to the conservation lab
Those that survive today are a testament to Old World luxury
Coin collectors, and trinket lovers welcome back the National Numismatic Collections to its splendid new gallery at the American History Museum
Take a trip to the uncanny valley and hope you make it back unscathed
The Singer Sewing Machine changed the way America manufactured textiles, but the invention itself was less important than the company’s innovative business
Inspired by a trip to Slovenia with her grandmother, one New Yorker took it upon herself to chronicle the story of a lost piece of European history
Sponsor: National Portrait Gallery
Vote for these all-stars in an entirely different kind of competition
Ninety years ago a Tennessee man stood trial for teaching evolution, a Smithsonian archives collection offers a glimpse into the rich backstory
Paleontologists are gathering evidence that may help crack the 148-million-year-old mystery, including signs of poisoned predators
The broad and sometimes difficult history of business in the U.S., its rogues, heros, successes and failures, is the dynamic story in a new exhibition
A weathervane from the Smithsonian collections is emblematic of Harland Sanders’s decades-long pursuit to make his chicken finger-lickin' good
Why the American dream is shaped like a hot dog
The founding father's fragile grave marker has survived for centuries, enduring souveniring, a fire and errant repairs
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