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SACRED ART NATIONAL IDENTITY I set out for Ukraine on a cold, clear morning in March, four weeks after the Russian invasion. A taxi whisked me 150 miles east from [...]

IT WASN'T JUST A LEGEND. ARCHAEOLOGISTS ARE GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF THE CITY CELEBRATED BY HOMER NEARLY 3,000 YEARS AGO THE LAST STRETCH OF MY JOURNEY began in a [...]

ON A SULTRY morning in September 2020, a team of Turkish officials showed up unannounced at the British Institute at Ankara, tucked on two floors of a five-story office building [...]

When Columba Stewart, a 63-year-old Benedictine monk based in Minnesota, arrived at the Kaiser Library, a government-affiliated archive in Kathmandu, Nepal, he stared up at the three-story building--wobbly, riven by [...]

Their relentless migration covers thousands of miles. But new threats are jeopardizing this ancient wonder of nature ONE OF NATURE'S MOST EXTRAORDINARY SPECTACLES unfolds in the 10,000foot-high conifer forests of [...]

SHE'S THE 'AVENGING ANGEL,' the 'ministering angel,' the 'lady with the lamp'--the brave woman whose name would become synonymous with selflessness and compassion. Yet as Britain prepares to celebrate Florence [...]

THE ANCIENT KINGDOM OF MRAUKU WELCOMED BUDDHISTS AND MUSLIMS. NOW EFFORTS TO UNCOVER ITS MYSTERIES ARE THREATENED BY ETHNIC HOSTILITIES IN SEMI-DARKNESS, I MAKE MY WAY down a tunnel-like corridor, [...]

Mohamed Fadei led me in the 110-degree heat through the Ishtar Gate, a soaring blue replica of the original made of blue enamel-glazed bricks and covered with bas-reliefs depicting dragons [...]

On a drizzly morning in mid-March, Layla Salih and I sat in the back of a mud-splattered Toyota Land Cruiser, bound for Nineveh, the ancient Assyrian capital near Mosul in [...]

Fleeing violence in Iraq, two close friends embarked on an epic journey across Europe--and ended up worlds apart. Smithsonian documents the complex drama of Europe's refugee crisis Sing to me [...]

THE TOWN OF HAPARANDA. 700 MILES NORTH OF STOCKHOLM. is a lonely smudge of civilization in the vast tundra of Swedish Lapland. It was once a thriving outpost for trade [...]

The port of Ouesso, in the Republic of Congo, sprawls along the east bank of the Sangha River, a wide, murky stream that winds through the heart of Africa. One [...]

Deep in the jungles of Cambodia, archaeologists are uncovering a vast and SOPHISTICATED METROPOLIS that is 350 years older than Ankgor Wat Jean-Baptiste Che vanee senses that were closing in [...]

Shortly before six o'clock in the morning on August 30, 2014, Margee Ensign, president of the American University of Nigeria, met with her security chief in the large house that [...]

On a sweltering summer afternoon, Antonio Irlando leads me down the Via dell'Abbondanza, the main thoroughfare in first-century Pompeii. The architect and conservation activist gingerly makes his way over huge, [...]

As I descend a footpath through subterranean gloom, limestone walls tower 40 feet and plunge into a chasm. Gleaming stalactites dangle from the ceiling. After several twists and turns, I [...]

He call came in to Gary Roberts last March at his home in Bere, a village of subsistence farmers deep in the sorghum and cotton fields of southern Chad. Reports [...]

Zahi Hawass doesn't like what he's seeing. Clad in his familiar denim safari suit and wide-brimmed bush hat, the famed archaeologist is standing inside the burial vault of the Step [...]

On a cloudless afternoon in the foothills of the Andes, Eliana Martinez took off for the Amazon jungle in a single-engine Cessna 172K from an airstrip near Colombia's capital, Bogota. [...]

Marcos Rodrigo Neves remembers the bad old days in Rocinha, the largest favela, or slum, in Rio de Janeiro. A baby-faced 27-year-old with a linebacker's build and close-cropped black hair, [...]

Shortly after dawn on a cool morning in late August, a three-member team from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, along with two colleagues, set out [...]

On a steamy evening at the beginning of the rainy season, a crowd of 10,000 packs the street outside the National League for Democracy headquarters in downtown Yangon. Volunteers pass [...]

The man was crucified, Um Mohammed said, her black eyes peering out through the slit in her black niqab. She was a widow in her 30s with two small children. [...]

STEVE BROOKER TREADS THROUGH A sea of slime, protected by rubber boots and fisherman's coveralls, stopping every few feet to probe the soggy ground with his trowel. 'We're looking for [...]

The new asphalt highway to Barack Obama's ancestral village winds past maize fields and thatched-roof mud huts for several miles before terminating at a startling sight: a row of lime-green [...]

Inas Fathy's transformation into a secret agent for the rebels began weeks before the first shots were fired in the Libyan uprising that erupted in February 2011. Inspired by the [...]

In an abandoned Gillette razor factory in Isleworth, not far from Heathrow Airport, the British film director Mike Newell wades ankle-deep through mud. The ooze splatters everybody: the mo or [...]

Fakhri Saad Eskander leads me through the marble-tiled courtyard of the Church of St. Mina and St. George in Sol, Egypt. We pass a mural depicting St. George and the [...]

ON A CRISP WINTER MORNING in Devon, England, sunlight streams through the floor-to-ceiling French windows of the manor house called Greenway, the secluded estate where Agatha Christie spent nearly every [...]

THE FIRST SHOCK HIT AT 11:58 A.M., emanating from a seismic fault six miles beneath the floor of Sagami Bay, 30 miles south of Tokyo. A 60- by 60-mile segment [...]

MY STINT AS AN AMATEUR ARCHAEOLOGIST began one morning on the southern slope of Mount Scopus, a hill on the northern outskirts of Jerusalem. Inside a large hothouse covered in [...]

The New Zero Gallery and Art Studio looks out over a scruffy street of coconut palms, noodle stalls and cybercafes in Yangon (Rangoon), the capital of Myanmar, the Southeast Asian [...]

Clad in a safari suit, sun hat, hiking boots and leather gloves, Zemaryalai Tarzi leads the way from his tent to a rectangular pit in the Bamiyan Valley of northern [...]

Valentin Gribenyuk trudges ahead of me through a birch and pine forest outside Yekaterinburg, Russia, waving oversize mosquitoes from his neck and face. The woods close in around us as [...]

UNTIL RECENTLY, ERNESTO BISANTI could not have imagined he would face down the Cosa Nostra (OurThing)--the Sicilian Mafia. In 1986 Bisanti started a furniture factory in Palermo. Soon after, a [...]

IN THE MIDDLE OF 2007, SHAI AGASSI, A SOFTWARE multimillionaire turned environmental entrepreneur, was pondering how to make an electric car affordable to the average Joe. At that point, the [...]

It was early morning and I was exploring the back streets of Kashgar, a fabled city on the western edge of China, with a Chinese journalist from Beijing, whom I'll [...]

One summer evening in 1889, a young medical school graduate named Arthur Conan Doyle arrived by train at London's Victoria Station and took a hansom cab two and a half [...]

I'm sitting in the courtyard of a mud-walled compound in a village in central Mali, 40 miles east of the Niger River, waiting for a clandestine meeting to begin. Donkeys, [...]

From the deck of a 40-foot sloop plying the chilly waters of Table Bay, Paul Mare gazes back at the illuminated skyline of Cape Town. It is early evening, at [...]

AT SEVEN O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING ON JUNE 15, 2007, THE BELL RANG AT THE FRONT GATE OF MARC VAN ROOSMALEN'S MODEST HOUSE ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF MANAUS, BRAZIL. For [...]

After nine years, Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer say 'See ya.' How will they finally check out? Don't expect hugging. THE HARD PART WILL BE COMING up with The Catch [...]

Earlier this month the Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot published a joint interview with four former directors of the Shin Bet, Israel's domestic intelligence service, that was notable for its sharp [...]

Byline: Joshua Hammer As his taxi halts near the Kalandia Checkpoint on the West Bank, Dr. Samir Khalil steps into a scene of fear and pandemonium. Piles of garbage, tangled [...]

Byline: Joshua Hammer The newest phase of the Palestinian uprising began last week on a lonely mountain road near the West Bank city of Ramallah. At an Israeli military checkpoint [...]

From the time she was a small child, Helga Kahrau always sensed she was different. Born in Nazi Germany at the start of World War II, Kahrau has hazy memories [...]

The article discusses the environmental impact of despotism, war and terrorism in Iraq. Topics mentioned include the decline number of clean water resources, the influence of civil war and economic stress to the increase number of migration and the integration of the American military operations to prevent the attacks of the Al Qaeda terrorists in the country.

Reports on children who were born into the Lebensborn, or 'Source of Life', program to create a master Aryan race during Nazi Germany. Treatment of the Lebensborn children after the World War II was over and the Nazis had been defeated; Lost records on the parents and heritage of the Lebensborn children; Comments from Helga Kahrau and Paul Hansen who were both born into Lebensborn programs.