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The Layered History of Koshary, Egypt’s Most Beloved Street Food

The Layered History of Koshary, Egypt’s Most Beloved Street Food

Smithsonian MagazineMariam Ehab

Archaeologists Say They’ve Identified Traces of a 2,000-Year-Old Love Note Still Etched Into a Wall in Ancient Pompeii

Archaeologists Say They’ve Identified Traces of a 2,000-Year-O…

Smithsonian MagazineEllen Wexler

A Native Soldier Allied With the British Killed a Young White Woman in 1777. Propaganda Transformed Her Into a Martyr of the American Revolution

A Native Soldier Allied With the British Killed a Young White Wom…

Smithsonian MagazineSerena Jampel

A Couple Walking Their Dogs Noticed 2,000-Year-Old Footprints on the Beach. They Were Visible for Just Days Before Waves Erased Them Forever

A Couple Walking Their Dogs Noticed 2,000-Year-Old Footprints …

Smithsonian MagazineSarah Kuta

You’ve Seen Jackson Pollock’s Dizzying Drip Paintings. But His Wife, Lee Krasner, Was Also a Major Player in the Abstract Expressionist Movement

You’ve Seen Jackson Pollock’s Dizzying Drip Paintings. But His W…

Smithsonian MagazineSonja Anderson

Three Years After "We Will Bury You," Nikita Khrushchev Tours America

Three Years After "We Will Bury You," Nikita Khrushchev Tours A…

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Uncovering the Terra Cotta Soldiers

Uncovering the Terra Cotta Soldiers

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Zooming In on Petra

Smithsonian MagazineSusan Orlean; Photographs by Christina Rizk

NASA's First Chimp in Space

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Thomas Edison's Stunning Footage of the Klondike Gold Rush

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Don't Call the Blobfish Ugly

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What Causes Stuttering? A Large DNA Analysis Study Offers New Cl…

Smithsonian MagazineSara Hashemi

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Flamingos

Smithsonian MagazineAshley Goetz

River Otters Take Party Pooping To A New Level

Smithsonian MagazineKatrina Lohan and Karen McDonald

Ouija Board: The Mysterious Origins of a Cultural Obsession

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Leafcutter Ants Have Blind Spots, Just Like Truck Drivers

Smithsonian MagazineRosannette Quesada Hidalgo

Want to See a Fighter Jet Fly Low and Fast? Here Are Some Prime Vi…

Smithsonian MagazineZach Rosenberg

Dive With WWII Wrecks in the Solomon Islands

Smithsonian MagazineLisa Niver

A Year Before His Presidential Debate, JFK Foresaw How TV Wo…

Smithsonian MagazineKat Eschner

From Playful Otters to Pint-Size Owls, These Eight Awesome Anim…

Smithsonian MagazineAurora Martínez

Ask Smithsonian: How Long Can a Person Hold Their Breath?

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This New AR App is the Coolest Way to Learn About Mars

Smithsonian MagazineTony Reichhardt

The Pumpkin Toadlet’s Miniature Size Makes It a Lousy Hopper

Smithsonian MagazineElizabeth Gamillo

You Could Run a ‘Penguin Post Office’ in Antarctica

Smithsonian MagazineSarah Kuta

This Adoptee Discovered a Trove of Documents in a Nun’s Basement. …

Smithsonian MagazineNina Strochlic

Civil War Weapons Recovered From South Carolina’s Congaree River

Smithsonian MagazineSarah Kuta

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Accidentally Discovers Sulfur Cry…

Smithsonian MagazineEli Wizevich

Why Debutantes Volunteered to Be Horse-Riding Couriers in Rural Ke…

Smithsonian MagazineEliza McGraw

World’s Deepest Shipwreck Discovered Four Miles Underwate…

Smithsonian MagazineMargaret Osborne

Rainbows Don’t Include Purple Light, So Why Do They Sometime…

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