Artifacts

Hint: There is a laser involved.

The settlement is centuries older than historians once believed.

These centuries-old vessels now have new stories to tell.

This facility is home to a lifesize replica of the original shuttle Independence—the only one of its kind in the world that’s mounted to an aircraft carrier.

At Discovery Hall in San Marcos, Texas, you can find American artifacts that upended how we understand human history in the Americas.

The remnants of Borgund were buried in the dirt for centuries and then sat in museum storage for decades.

A scholar of Aegean civilization considers the inscrutable meaning of the artifact—and its irresistible appeal.

The self-taught naturalist found a site that would transform scientific views about Native Americans in North America.

Modern humans arrived in Southern France—deep in Neanderthal territory—10,000 years earlier than thought.