The RMS Titanic ocean liner sunk to the depths of the Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg in 1912. Still more than 100 ...

The Great Lakes Science Center's newly announced exhibition, opening May 21, features over 200 artifacts recovered from the ...

Scientists have turned to artifacts associated with Leonardo da Vinci on a quest to track down the legendary polymath’s elusive DNA.

A story about a “mysterious power plug” turning up in a 100,000‑year‑old cave sounds tailor‑made for viral headlines and late ...

A little-known weapons stockpile has been languishing in Central New Mexico for decades. It isn’t associated with current ...

The people at the center of this discovery are known as the Sambaqui. For nearly 7,000 years, these groups lived along the ...

New evidence from Brazil reveals organized whale hunting began thousands of years earlier than previously believed, ...

Archaeologists discovered artifacts for sale in a thrift shop. They decided to create a college course on what to do about them. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...

These ancient tribes were bad to the bone. Drinking from skulls might not be limited to lurid serial killer movies. Archaeologists have exhumed skull cups and skeleton masks among a repository of ...