Divers found the Antikythera mechanism in a shipwreck in 1900 ... Solving the Mystery of the World’s First Computer, told Smithsonian magazine’s Meilan Solly in 2023.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the U.S. could "move on" from its involvement in negotiations to end the war in ...

These 82 bronze fragments of the original mechanism were found in a Roman shipwreck by sponge divers ... as remarkably advanced for its time. Using computer imaging techniques previously ...

The Smithsonian, a sprawling, 21-museum institution tasked with telling the story of the United States and much more, could see changes under President Donald Trump, who in a Thursday executive ...

By Graham Bowley Robin Pogrebin and Jennifer Schuessler In response to President Trump’s effort to reshape the Smithsonian Institution, four Democratic members of a House oversight committee ...

That’s the order that seeks to “restore the Smithsonian Institution to its rightful place as a symbol of inspiration and American greatness” through removing mentions of historical racism.

The letter is in response to an executive order the president signed in March. House Democrats are demanding the White House preserve the independence of the Smithsonian Institution after ...

The institution was established with funds from James Smithson, a British scientist who left his estate to the United States to found “at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian ...