This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Throughout history, small states have come out of nowhere, and rapidly become great powers. This was the ...

5 min read This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Icelandic sagas tell how the 10th-century Viking sailor Leif Eriksson stumbled on a new ...

Photograph by Werner Forman, GTRES This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Mesopotamia—“the land between two rivers”—gave birth to ...

As National Geographic reimagines its iconic headquarters for the 21st century, here’s a look back at its history as a base for both Cold War spies and the Society’s own Explorers.

This story appears in the February 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. In 1418 the town ... have been one of the first alarm clocks in history. Applying his theoretical and mechanical ...

National Geographic plans to open a 100,000-square-foot museum in downtown D.C. by mid-2026, the organization announced ...

What a little-known work of Tolkien can teach us. Near Naples, it’s a case study in archaeology in Italy. On U. S. Grant, bad men, civil liberties, Scottish nationalism, missile defense ...

This story appears in the October 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a chilly January ... Maidment, a curator at the U.K.’s Natural History Museum, has come with me to tour Crystal ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

This remote patch of Montana has fewer than 900 homeowners, worth more than a combined $290 billion. Here's Forbes exclusive guide to the richest and most famous members. With a fanatical focus on ...

The remains were discovered during excavations in 1938. Now, researchers have learned new information about his identity by analyzing DNA from his tooth Sonja Anderson Despite its unusually small ...

We’ve got experts Smithsonian magazine As a child, the future president acquired a marine animal's skull, which became the first specimen in his natural history collection Peter Zablocki A new ...