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“Swords like this are very special,” Duncan Sayer of the University of Central Lancashire, the site’s lead archaeologist, tells Smithsonian magazine. “It looks like the man it was buried ...

The highest-profile additions to the Smithsonian in 2024, garnering headlines worldwide, were the two giant pandas that arrived in October. Bao Li and Qing Bao will make their public debut ...

“It was soon apparent that the fire could not be contained,” Smithsonian magazine wrote in 2018. The audience, many of whom were women, children and teachers on their holiday break, made for ...

“‘Solid Gold’ will transport visitors through the many worlds of gold, its joyful, though at times heartbreaking, histories,” says Matthew Yokobosky, the show’s senior curator, in a statemen ...

Cathleen Lewis, curator of international space programs, National Air and Space Museum This article is a selection from the January/February 2025 issue of Smithsonian magazine ...

She began submitting stories to science fiction magazines in 1960, amassing rejections until 1970 when she sold her first tale—“Childfinder,” a story about a telepath working to help psychic ...

The bird, thought to be the only one of its kind in the Western Hemisphere, is presumed to be Stella, an out-of-place raptor spotted at sites across North America in recent years Sarah Kuta Daily ...

Sara Georgini is series editor for The Papers of John Adams, part of the Adams Papers editorial project at the Massachusetts Historical Society. She is the author of Household Gods: The Religious ...

Conservationists hope the love story between Boris and Svetlaya might indicate a new, successful chapter in tiger repopulation efforts Eli Wizevich History Correspondent Siberian tigers Boris and ...