The colorful artwork decorates the frigidarium of the Villa Romana del Casale, a UNESCO World Heritage site located in Sicily ...

There’s more to farm life than waking up with the rooster’s cock-a-doodle-do to milk the cows. It’s also a culture that ...

Investigators pulled a 1960s Buick sedan from the waterway in central Minnesota that provides new details about a man’s ...

During the 2025 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, sidewalk astronomers brought a sense of hope into Washington, D.C.

Scientists observed a family of four spectral bats in their roost in a tree in Costa Rica, capturing an inside look at their ...

When the new Cotoni-Coast Dairies national monument opened to the public on August 16, the 5,800-acre property officially ...

The toolmakers or their ancestors might have arrived on Sulawesi by clinging to vegetation during a storm, but their identities remain a mystery ...

Both Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd ate corn bread as children. He ate it from necessity; she ate it from tradition. The circumstances of their childhoods produced very different recipes. As adults, ...

VISITING What to know: The museum is open seven days a week, except Dec. 25, between 10 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Admission is free, and passes are not required. For more information, go to ...

In 1774, 51 North Carolinian women led by Penelope Barker signed a resolution supporting the boycott of British goods ...

The word “lewk” was added to Cambridge this year, three years after it was added to Merriam-Webster and more than a decade ...

A university choir has revived music found hiding in plain sight in a book from southern England's Buckland Abbey ...