The votive plaque was found amid the ruins of an ancient Roman fortress. Researchers think a temple dedicated to the mysterious deity may have stood nearby Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent The gold ...
A Smithsonian curator reflects back on the artistic legend, a "Renaissance man" with 28 Grammys to his name, who died Sunday ...
The pachyderm, named Kamala, was suffering from osteoarthritis when zoo staff chose to euthanize her ...
When fishermen found the endangered loggerhead sea turtle off Vancouver Island in February, she was listlessly floating in a ...
Before arriving in North America, the species is believed to have invaded South American rivers through ballast water—the ...
This brief chapter of art history is often overlooked. Now, an exhibition in New York City makes a strong argument for the ...
The historical timeline you keep in your head might not be as accurate as you think Colin Schultz; Updated by Meilan Solly Teaching in Oxford, England, began no later than 1096. Tenochtitlán, the ...
Recently, SAAM acquired a “Wobbulator” built by Nam June Paik and Shuya Abe for its Nam June Paik Archive and were able to ...
Hosted by the museum’s director, Kim Sajet, PORTRAITS explores art, biography, history and identity.
Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space telescopes ...
In the Jim Crow South, activists became martyrs at the hands of white racists, all for the just cause of using the vote to ...
A "staggering array" of markings have been hiding in plain sight carved into the walls of Gainsborough Old Hall, a 500-year-old home in Lincolnshire, England ...