This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Where do babies come from? The Aztecs’ answer to the classic child’s question was that they came ...

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 ...

This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Sparta’s enemies, when facing the intimidating Spartan forces, would see a wall of shields ...

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 ...

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 ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Depicted on a tetradrachm, the Olympian Dionysus was the god of wine, an important part of the ...

Amy Briggs is the Executive Editor of National Geographic History magazine . This story appears in the July/August 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. It was first published online ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. On a spring day in 1480, Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia ordered various astrologers to his home in Rome to ...

However, the tablets long predated the Bible, placing the flood story further back in history than originally ... In this 1951 National Geographic magazine illustration, a survivor tells Gilgamesh ...

This story originally published in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the fall of ... to pass himself off as someone else. The history of humankind is strewn with crafty ...