The fragile 18th-century containers, which likely held alcoholic beverages that were shared among passengers and crew members, survived for centuries at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean The owners ...

Bunch III spoke on the current political climate, the process of returning human remains from the Institution’s collections, the awe-inspiring scope of Smithsonian science and much more Kayla ...

Archaeologists Stunned to Discover Thousands of Cuneiform Tablets at an Ancient Sumerian City in Iraq Archaeologists have ...

PHOTO (pipe bowl) James Gibb, (background) Stephen Voss Ten years ago, when Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC ... who conduct the site’s long-running archaeological study. They range ...

The new science of archaeology engaged people’s imaginations with the deep past, in the midst of a rapid rush of new technologies and industries. Artwork of the time shows the connections between the ...

The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History is one step closer to becoming the only museum within the Smithsonian Institution dedicated to the stories of Jewish Americans. On Wednesday ...