And while some of the oldest artifacts in the world do fit under those categories, there are plenty of surprising items that survived thousands of years, like a linen shirt, boats and gold beads.

The National Air and Space Museum holds approximately 17,000 space artifacts in its collection. More than 3,500 of those stem from the historic Apollo Moon landing effort, with 400 objects related ...

Breaking science news and articles on global warming, extrasolar planets, stem cells, bird flu, autism, nanotechnology, dinosaurs, evolution -- the latest discoveries ...