Artifacts
Happy Trails
As freshly carved toys or treasured heirlooms, well-bred rocking horses ride high in the affections of kids and collectors alike
Unearthing Athens' Underworld
Throughout the decade-long construction of the city's new metro, archaeologists have found a trove of treasures
Pack Rat
First Virgil Johnson gave up smoking. Then he gave up his breathtaking collection of tobacco-nalia
Romancing the Stones
Who built the great megaliths and stone circles of Great Britain, and why? Researchers continue to puzzle and marvel over these age-old questions
Downtown Digs
One step ahead of bulldozers, Urban archaeologists pull historic treasures from America's cityscapes
Moving Down the Line
It's pulled and jimmied, tied and lifted but the 20-ton Jupiter engine finally reaches its new home
A Wizard's Scribe
Before the phonograph and lightbulb, the electric pen helped spell the future for Thomas Edison
The Object at Hand
A bejeweled box from a sorely beset emperor leads to a Yankee dentist, and how he rescued the beautiful empress Eugénie from a Paris mob
Rising From the Sea, the Mysterious Handwork of Giants
On the tiny Mediterranean islands of Malta, massive megaliths constitute a singular treasure: the oldest freestanding stone monuments
Around the Mall & Beyond
Protecting museum treasures - paintings by the masters, the delicate wings of a tropical beetle - requires the strictest climate control, right?
A Pilgrim's Search for Relics of the Once and Future King
Ancient stones and much-loved stories yield both hints and guesses about Arthur and his Camelot
The Dying Tecumseh and the Birth of a Legend
A sculpture in the Smithsonian collection reveals much about how the Indians of the West were viewed in the early ages of the United States
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