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 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 ...

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 ...

Encircled by thick jungle, Palenque is one of the most impressive and mysterious of all Mexico’s ancient Maya sites. Known by the ancient Maya people as Lakamha, and today a UNESCO World ...

In the early 1800s, a Swiss explorer tricked his way into Petra, the ancient oasis whose location had been a closely guarded secret for centuries. Known as Ed Deir—the Monastery—this building ...

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 June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. From the English ... of Raleigh’s Virginia voyages to the history and culture of the modern world is often forgotten ...

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

Thaís Pansani examines the marks humans left on megafauna bones to determine when people arrived in South America and how they interacted with giant mammals Chihiro Kai Chihiro Kai Jack Tamisiea ...

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expressed her excitement over the recognition from National Geographic in a phone interview with the Idaho Statesman. “The Basque culture is so much part of our history and heritage here ...

The rationale for keeping legalese is that it’s an extremely precise lawyerly argot that conveys specific, clear-cut meanings, but that’s false. What’s the rule on forming a singular ...