The famous archaeological treasure is falling into scandalous decline, even as its sister city Herculaneum is rising from the ashes
The author helped create a library in the last town he called home—and it's full of great summer reading suggestions
A new exhibition explains why the everyday objects of today and the recent past are so important to understanding who we are
Smithsonian Journeys Travel Quarterly: Inca Road
For a new exhibition, a Smithsonian curator conducted oral histories with contemporary indigenous cultures to recover lost Inca traditions
Hikers Erika and Helmut Simon stumbled upon a frozen body deep in the Ötztal Alps, little did they know it belonged to one of the oldest preserved corpses
Turtles, beavers and eel were once beloved staples of the continental diet. What happened?
This summer, ride the coasters that add history to their thrills
In the 1880s, LaMarcus Thompson was troubled by America's slide into hedonism and immorality. Out of that concern, we got the roller coaster
J.S. Lovering Wharton built this house on a rock off the coast of Rhode Island because, as legend has it, he wanted a place where no one could bother him
Ancient DNA sequenced from the skeleton adds to the controversy over the individual's ancestry
150 years ago, the historic conflict forced doctors to get creative and to reframe the way they thought about medicine
An elaborate system of elevators and trap doors lifted ferocious beasts onto the Colosseum floor
An international bestseller, Erich Maria Remarque's <em>All Quiet on the Western Front</em> was banned and burned in Nazi Germany
The British remember William Howe De Lancey, an American friend to the Duke of Wellington, as a hero for the role he played in the 1815 clash
One of Frank Lloyd Wright's most beloved properties, Taliesin, was inspired by Wisconsin's natural beauty. But its history is mired in tragedy
From the mild-mannered Danes to crazed soccer fans, people all over the world go nuts for their national colors
In a world before the printing press, how did news of the famous document make the rounds?
Photographer Sam Faulkner shoots a portrait series that gives a face to the more than 200,000 soldiers who fought in the historic conflict
When German U-boat Commander Walther Schwieger ordered a torpedo strike on the Lusitania, he didn't know it would be the shot that eventually led the U.S.
New sampling methods yielded cells and fibers from relatively ordinary fossils, broadening the possibilities for paleontology
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