3+ week, 3+ day ago  (646+ words) More from Smithsonian magazine Sonja Anderson | Daily Correspondent In the year 541 C. E. , a terrible sickness swept through the Byzantine Empire. Now known as the Plague of Justinian, after the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, the pandemic faded and resurged for two centuries,…...

11+ hour, 54+ min ago  (601+ words) When Allied soldiers entered the concentration camps in 1945, they did not find an ending. They found the catastrophe still unfolding. They found a logistical, medical, and human disaster still actively in progress. The SS guards had fled, surrendered, hidden among…...

16+ hour, 34+ min ago  (167+ words) Remarkable antiquities from a radiant Greek civilization take center stage in the new exhibition, "Pylos of Nestor: A Mycenaean Kingdom Revealed," opening this Monday at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. This Athens showcase marks the final stop of an…...

9+ hour, 37+ min ago  (459+ words) John Caudwell's monument " which some have described as being "out of the Roman Empire' " stands in front of his "300 million French riviera development...

12+ hour, 32+ min ago  (357+ words) A new high-resolution climate study from China's Loess Plateau suggests that soil temperature, not just air temperature or rainfall, played a decisive role in shaping the spread of millet farming during the Neolithic period. Published earlier this month in the…...

7+ hour, 38+ min ago  (151+ words) Genetic mapping of relationships within six gravesite complexes of the Wartberg culture in Germany. (Nicolas Antonio da Silva et al. /Science)" Further analysis indicated that women and girls were particularly mobile, frequently relocating to different communities over their lifetimes. This…...

10+ hour, 18+ min ago  (123+ words) Chehel Sotun is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Isfahan, Iran. The palace was completed in 1647 during the Safavid era. It is known for its twenty columns, wall paintings, mirror work, and wooden decorations. In the course of the…...

1+ day, 8+ min ago  (400+ words) If they'd sent the Welcome Wagon, Maria Hershman-Horch couldn't have had a pleasanter introduction to Stockbridge. The prewar toast of Vienna, who is going to run the Berkshire Playhouse Drama School this season, came up from New York to make…...

9+ hour, 35+ min ago  (574+ words) A TRIO of historic abbeys across the Scottish Borders face being plunged into darkness after Scottish Borders Council revealed it was ending floodlighting agreements. The termination of contracts for Jedburgh, Kelso, and Melrose Abbeys has been initiated to cut operational…...

14+ hour, 25+ min ago  (612+ words) The Stone Age is a misnomer....