Artifacts

The strange bronze artifact perplexed scholars for more than a century, including how it traveled so far from home.

Brantley Baird’s Rock Art Ranch offers tours of canyon-wall petroglyphs and a stunning collection of ancient pottery.

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.