Dissecting the Dome of the Rock’s centuries of history Dissecting the Dome of the Rock’s centuries of history Dissecting the Dome of the Rock’s centuries of history Chile’s glaciers are dying.

Beyond the myth of exploration lies a rich and overlooked history Beyond the myth of exploration lies a rich and overlooked history She founded an Afghan girls school. Now she runs it in exile.

The breakthrough could literally change history. Some earthquakes are imperceptibly quiet. We may not feel them, but machines might detect them—and they can point scientists to a potential "Big ...

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them ... Photographer and National Geographic Explorer Rena Effendi learned that a little-known ...

It fell from the sky. A Q&A with Nikole Hannah-Jones on ‘The 1619 Project’ A Q&A with Nikole Hannah-Jones on ‘The 1619 Project’ Explore 13,000 years of human history on this remote ...

A man’s world? Not according to biology or history. A man’s world? Not according to biology or history. To photograph our cover story on the population milestone reached last year, Justin Jin ...

A billion-dollar cleanup is trying to make it swimmable again. The history of Paris is inextricably linked to the river that flows through its center—from Neolithic settlement to this year’s ...

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 ...

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 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 January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Lots of people are ... and civilizations throughout history. In a story from our issue, Robin Marantz Henig writes ...