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Historic Eras

Historic eras—including prehistory, ancient and modern history—represent time viewed through the lens of human events
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Chocolate beans and pod

A Brief History of Chocolate

Uncover the bittersweet story of this ancient treat and watch a VIDEO
March 01, 2008 | By Amanda Bensen

The Empress Dowager Cixi 1903-1905

Cixi: The Woman Behind the Throne

The concubine who became China’s last empress
March 01, 2008 | By Amanda Bensen

The Parthenon, said the 19th-century French engineer Auguste Choisy, represents "the supreme effort of genius in pursuit of beauty."

Unlocking Mysteries of 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
February 2008 | By Evan Hadingham

Turn the Page

Electronic books may soon vie with library cards for space in your pocket
January 15, 2008 | By Eric Jaffe

Tikal

The Mystery of Tikal

An ancient Mayan city, once hidden by overgrown jungle, evokes a childlike sense of wonder
January 2008 | By Mark Strauss

Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu’s Ancient Beauty

The “lost city of the Incas” has captivated visitors with its magnificent setting and detailed stonework
January 2008 | By Jess Blumberg

Sound Sessions

Part of Jeff Place’s job as an archivist at Smithsonian’s Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections is to field questions from around the world about music. And with his desk, nestled amidst original recordings of songs and interviews with some of the biggest names in music, he is well-prep...
December 03, 2007 | By Megan Gambino

Drayton Hall, a stately Palladian manse built in 1742 near Charleston, South Carolina, was the childhood home of pamphleteer and Continental Congress delegate William Henry Drayton. Its porticoes and pediments convey a sense of grandeur, and it remains in much the same condition as it was 250 years ago.

Revolutionary Real Estate

Statesmen, soldiers and spies who made America and the way they lived
December 2007 | By Hugh Howard

Nearly two decades after a Frenchman decoded hieroglyphs on an ancient granite stone, the allure of the Rosetta stone has yet to fade.

Romancing the Stone

An Egyptologist explains the Rosetta stone's lasting allure
November 05, 2007 | By Beth Py-Lieberman

Symbolically Speaking

A Q&A with hieroglyphs expert Janice Kamrin
November 05, 2007 | By Jess Blumberg

"I strove to imitate nature as clearly as I could, and with all the perspective I could produce," wrote sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti of the gilded bronze doors he created for Florence

The Gates of Paradise

Panels from the Italian Renaissance sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti tour the U.S. for the first time
November 2007 | By Arthur Lubow

Amenhotep III (a granite head from the temple complex is his best extant portrait) was succeeded by his son Akhenaten, who revolutionized Egypt

Rebellious Son

Amenhotep III was succeeded by one of the first known monotheists
November 2007 | By Andrew Lawler

Tongue Tied

Some 200 Native American languages are dying out and with them valuable history
October 31, 2007 | By Robin T. Reid

Archaeologists assumed that the great temple had been stripped of all statues

Unearthing Egypt's Greatest Temple

Discovering the grandeur of the monument built 3,400 years ago
October 2007 | By Andrew Lawler

VanDerwarker (examining detritus at Pennsylvania’s Muhlenberg College, where she worked until June) asks “fundamental questions about how people lived in the past.”

Down to Earth

Anthropologist Amber VanDerwarker is unraveling the mysteries of the ancient Olmec by figuring out what they ate
October 2007 | By Andrew Lawler

“I wanted to build something that grows from large to huge,” Schachter (at Yahoo!’s Palo Alto office) told the Guardian. “I don’t know if I have another innovation in me, but it would be nice to try.”

Site Seer

Faced with the Internet's overwhelming clutter, Joshua Schachter invented a deceptively simple tool that helps us all cut to the chase
October 2007 | By Adam Rogers

“Lending to somebody,” says Flannery, “sends the message that you’re treating them as an equal. It’s a dignifiedway to interact.”

I, Lender

Software engineer Matt Flannery pioneers Internet microloans to the world's poor
October 2007 | By Amy Crawford

“What I’m trying to do is treat images as seriously as text,” says Bleichmar (at USC in March 2007). The illustrations she has studied were dismissed by art historians as inferior art and by historians of science as something akin to decoration.

Flower Power

Studying ancient botanical drawings, Daniela Bleichmar is rewriting the history of the Spanish conquest of the Americas
October 2007 | By Rick Wartzman

Portugal

When Portugal Ruled the Seas

The country's global adventurism in the 16th century linked continents and cultures as never before, as a new exhibition makes clear
September 2007 | By David Zax

How exactly was the Great Pyramid built

Monumental Shift

Tackling an ages-old puzzle, a French architect offers a new theory on how the Egyptians built the Great Pyramid at Giza
August 01, 2007 | By Diana Parsell


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