It's been an exceptional week for skywatchers, marked by mysterious sky spirals, the northern lights and, of course, this morning's long-anticipated sunrise solar eclipse. On Monday (March 24), a ...

New geoarchaeological research shows that metalworking in ancient Egypt led to significant contamination in a nearby port. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

This is a tool that the Ancient Egyptians used. See the way it's a bit broken? Well, that's because it's very old. We call this kind of object an artefact. An artefact gives us a little window into ...

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From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...