Maine's Lost Colony

Archeologists uncover an early American settlement that history forgot
February 2004 | By Myron Beckenstein

Reading Faces

Is that a scowl or just disgust? Facial expressions can be harder to interpret than most of us realize, but help is on the way. Read on
January 2004 | By Richard Coniff

Man of the Hour

Master horologist John Metcalfe keeps on ticking
December 2003 | By Patrick Cooke

Mesopotamian Masterpieces

Exquisite art and artifacts from the world's earliest civilization are dazzling visitors to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art
August 2003 | By Richard Covington

Wild Thing

For 100 years, Harleys have fueled our road-warrior fantasies
August 2003 | By Robert F. Howe

Saving Iraq's Treasures

As archaeologists worldwide help recover looted artifacts, they worry for the safety of the great sites of early civilization.
June 2003 | By Andrew Lawler

Rethinking Neanderthals

Research suggests the so-called brutes fashioned tools, buried their dead, maybe cared for the sick and even conversed. But why, if they were so smart, did they disappear?
June 2003 | By Joe Alper

Capitol Discovery

Senate staffers come across a historic treasure in a dusty storage room
June 2003 | By Philip Kopper

Curiosities and Wonders

Where do you put all those treasures?
June 2003 | By Lawrence M. Small

Coalition of the Differing

It took Margaret Mead to understand the two nations separated by a common language
June 2003 | By Patrick Cooke

The Enduring Splendors of, Yes, Afghanistan

A writer and photographer crisscross a nation ravaged by a quarter century of warfare to inventory its most sacred treasures
February 2003 | By Rob Schultheis

Testimony from the Iceman

The 5,000-plus-year-old Neolithic man discovered a decade ago is telling scientists how he lived and died
February 2003 | By Bob Cullen

Happy Trails

As freshly carved toys or treasured heirlooms, well-bred rocking horses ride high in the affections of kids and collectors alike
December 2002 | By Per Ola and Emily D'Aulaire

Just the Right Touch

By introducing a note of modesty, Marilyn Monroe's gloves actually heightened her come-hither allure
December 2002 | By David H. Shayt

Pieces of History

Raised from the deep, the Monitor's turret reveals a bounty of new details about the ship's violent end
November 2002 | By Wendy Mitman Clarke

Unearthing Athens' Underworld

Throughout the decade-long construction of the city's new metro, archaeologists have found a trove of treasures
November 2002 | By Rudy Chelminski

Lasting Impressions

Scientists cast tall shadows but find themselves hard pressed to explain the blues to Mongolians
November 2002 | By Donovan Webster

Pack Rat

First Virgil Johnson gave up smoking. Then he gave up his breathtaking collection of tobacco-nalia
October 2002 | By Ed Leibowitz

First City in the New World?

Peru's Caral suggests civilization emerged in the Americas 1,000 years earlier than experts believed
August 2002 | By Smithsonian magazine

Macho in Miniature

For nearly 40 years, G.I. Joe has been on America's front lines in toy boxes from coast to coast
August 2002 | By Ed Leibowitz

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