Anthropology
Rome Reborn
Archaeologists unveil a 3-D model of the great city circa A.D. 400
July 01, 2007 |
By Andrew Curry
Die Hard Donation
Bruce Willis gives John McClane's blood-smeared undershirt to the Smithsonian. Yippee-ki-yay...
July 01, 2007 |
By Amy Crawford
Walk This Way
Humans' two-legged gait evolved to save energy, new research says
July 01, 2007 |
By Eric Jaffe
Reconstructing Petra
Two thousand years ago, it was the capital of a powerful trading empire. Now archaeologists are piecing together a more complete picture of Jordan's compelling rock city
June 2007 |
By Andrew Lawler
Saving Our Shipwrecks
New technologies are aiding the search for one Civil War submarine, and the conservation of another
June 01, 2007 |
By Eric Jaffe
The New World's Oldest Calendar
Research at a 4,200-year-old temple in Peru yields clues to an ancient people who may have clocked the heavens
May 2007 |
By Anne Bolen
Epic Hero
How a self-taught British genius rediscovered the Mesopotamian saga of Gilgamesh after 2,500 years
May 2007 |
By David Damrosch
Roy Richard Grinker
His new book offers a scholar's and father's perspective on autism
April 2007 |
By Arthur Allen
Raising Alexandria
More than 2,000 years after Alexander the Great founded Alexandria, archaeologists are discovering its fabled remains
April 2007 |
By Andrew Lawler
The Mystery of Easter Island
New findings rekindle old debates about when the first people arrived and why their civilization collapsed
April 01, 2007 |
By Whitney Dangerfield
Reading Between the Lines
Scientists with high-tech tools are deciphering lost writings of the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes
March 2007 |
By Mary K. Miller
The Story Behind the Star Spangled Banner
How the flag that flew proudly over Fort McHenry inspired an anthem and made its way to the Smithsonian
March 01, 2007 |
By Cate Lineberry
Sea Island Strata
At a former Georgia plantation, archaeologists delve into both the workaday and spiritual lives of slaves.
February 2007 |
By Eric Wills
Second Time Around
Invented by Ben Franklin but lost to history, the glass harmonica has been resurrected by modern musicians
February 01, 2007 |
By Catherine Clarke Fox
Gathering Rosebuds
Did a Native American actress inspire one of Hollywood's most celebrated symbols?
January 2007 |
By Owen Edwards
The Shadow Knows
Why a leading expert on the history of timekeeping set out to create a sundial unlike anything the world has ever seen
January 2007 |
By Dava Sobel
The Tattoo Eraser
A new type of body art ink promises freedom from forever
January 01, 2007 |
By Eric Jaffe
The Treasures of Timbuktu
Scholars in the fabled African city, once a great center of learning and trade, are racing to save a still emerging cache of ancient manuscripts
December 2006 |
By Joshua Hammer
