Egyptologist Huub Pragt and Smithsonian Journeys traveler Kellie Mecham share first impressions from their visit to the ...
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Staffers at the Dorchester County Historical Society in Maryland were baffled by the unusual machine, so they asked the ...
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Using a variety of techniques, the researchers realized that two subspecies of squirrels from Southeast Asia were actually ...
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The 1898 Wilmington massacre left dozens of Black North Carolinians dead. Conspirators also forced the city's multiracial ...
Named "Idi" the woman was found buried inside a pair of highly decorated coffins stacked inside each other, reported the ...
The work, now on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, tells the story of two characters on the island—the last people ...
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The farthest spacecraft in the universe went momentarily rogue, but scientists breathed a sigh of relief when it reconnected ...