The United States Postal Service and volunteers have responded to North Pole holiday correspondence for more than a century ...
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Jean Charles Blais had no idea that his studio in southern France was hiding a Roman funerary inscription dating to the first ...
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To commemorate the National Day of the Horse, see herds of equine images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest ...
Most of the documents are heading to the auction block, where they could fetch more than $1 million. They were found in a bank vault owned by the French statesman’s son Ella Feldman Daily ...
Francis Drake's successful voyage included British sailors' arrival in California and the plundering of a glut of Spanish ...
A new exhibition in London examines the relationship between the three Italian Renaissance artists, who came together in ...
An unusual approach to spotting tiny asteroids uses James Webb Space Telescope data in a boost for planetary defense research ...
A fragment of upper jaw fossil from the Early Cretaceous is among the oldest examples of a toothless amphibian in the fossil ...
Bao Li (whose name means “treasure” and “energetic”) and Qing Bao (“green treasure”) are the next step in a continuum of giant panda conservation at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...
Francis Drake's successful voyage included British sailors' arrival in California and the plundering of a glut of Spanish ...