Smart News History & Archaeology

The Man Who Mentored da Vinci Receives First U.S. Retrospective

Turkey Is Moving Forward With Plans to Flood a 10,000-Year-Old City

Exploring Paul Revere’s Legacy Beyond His Famed Midnight Ride

Innovative Spirit

A New Monopoly Celebrates Women. But What About the Game’s Own Overlooked Inventor?

Cool Finds

Prehistoric Farmers' Teeth Show Humans Were Drinking Animal Milk 6,000 Years Ago

Cool Finds

Hurricane Dorian Unearths Civil War Cannonballs at South Carolina Beach

New Research

Unique Salt Coating Helped Preserve 25-Foot-Long Dead Sea Scroll

Drought Reveals Dolmen of Guadalperal, Popularly Dubbed ‘Spanish Stonehenge’

Diet Eman, the Dutch Resistance Fighter Who Helped Jews Escape the Nazis, Has Died at 99

Cool Finds

Artifacts from the Final Battle of the English Civil War Uncovered During Road Project