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The rectangular object dates to around 1350 B.C.E. and was likely created by members of the Central European Urnfield culture ...

A public transit official working for the city of Leeds found the coin while counting bus and tram fares. Now, his grandson has donated it to Leeds Museums and Galleries ...

Currently, one of those now-defunct spacecraft might be plummeting toward the planet’s surface. Days ago, the U.S. Space ...

Over the past few years, art historians have identified several previously unknown paintings by Elizabeth I's favorite artist ...

Smithsonian magazine covers history, science and culture in the way only it can — through a lens on the world that is insightful and grounded in richly reported stories. In There’s More to That, meet ...

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Americans' chronic lack of sleep, says the CDC, is a "public health crisis." And there's plenty o research to prove it. As The New York Times puts it, "In the last year or two, an obsessive fixation ...