Amazons fight Greeks on a terra-cotta lekythos (oil flask) from the fifth century B.C. Amazon battle scenes, known as Amazonomachy, were popular in ancient Greek art. Metropolitan Museum, New York ...

A seventy-million-dollar renovation beautifully presents the museum’s non-Western art—even if doubts remain about whether all ...

The move for American Independence was greatly influenced by ancient Greece, particularly philosophy from the time.

The ancient Near East, a region extending from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea to present-day Afghanistan, was home to several of the world's oldest civilizations. Favored with an ...

Education has always been at the core of the Smithsonian’s mission, and today, our work is more urgent than ever. As one of the nation’s most trusted resources for learning, the Smithsonian ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, is set to establish a named chair in Alexander the Great Studies.

Mysterious Antikythera Mechanism Is Even Older Than We Thought This ancient astronomical calculator is now dated to 205 B.C. and is 1,000 years more advanced than anything else found from that time ...

A cross-disciplinary endeavor between the Lynch School of Education and Human Development and the Boston College School of Social Work was awarded a two-year grant from the Buffett Early Childhood ...