A new study combines A.I., radiocarbon dating and handwriting analysis to estimate new dates for some of the ancient scrolls, ...

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Between 2010 and 2021, authorities seized around five million individual sea horses worth more than $21 million ...

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Trail cameras captured an elusive Leadbeater's possum in the Australian state of New South Wales, where they were thought to ...

In the 19th and 20th centuries, San Servolo and San Clemente housed patients suffering from pellagrous insanity, a condition ...

Father's Day will be here before you know it! Smithsonian Books has "dad books" galore for you to choose from to make his day ...

Summer will officially begin with this year's solstice on June 20. And on Wednesday, June 11, comes a "strawberry moon," the ...

Mary Cassatt reshaped the art world by elevating everyday domestic moments into beautiful Impressionist works of art.

Titled “ The New Art: American Photography, 1839-1910 ,” the show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City features ...

Painted in 1666, "View of Olinda, Brazil, With Ruins of the Jesuit Church" is a masterpiece by Frans Post, one of the first ...

Authorities are urging visitors to stop wedging pocket change between the basalt columns, which are cracking and crumbling as ...