Smithsonian's educational travel program was one of the first of its kind when it debuted nationally in 1970, and it quickly ...

The legend of a Grand Canyon ranger stumbling onto a hidden chamber packed with Egyptian relics has all the ingredients of a ...

Beneath the waters of the Great Lakes, thousands of shipwrecks, hulking carcasses of a bygone era, have been hiding for ...

This holiday season, the Smithsonian Store is spreading winter cheer with a curated collection of gifts inspired by the ...

An analysis of the only intact Neanderthal inner nose bones known to exist reveals that our ancient cousins' enormous noses ...

The temperature hours ago climbed past 104 degrees, and the taxi’s air-conditioning is struggling to keep up. We are barreling across the lush plains of Uzbekistan on a midsummer afternoon. Then, ...