The U.S. built a covert Cold War base under a Greenland glacier. Its secrets are now being revealed.
What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to ...
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Veiled Rebellion
This story appears in the December 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Twenty-five years ago an Afghan girl with green eyes haunted the cover of National Geographic. She became the iconic ...
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Inside the Quest to Save Afghanistan’s Bactrian Gold
This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Discovered against the turbulent backdrop of the Cold War ... up this huge collection of objects.
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World War I soldiers created underground art in the trenches.
This story originally appeared in the August 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine as "The Hidden World of the Great War." In honor of Veterans Day and the 100th anniversary of the end of ...
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Civil War Battlefield Art
This story appears in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow to record movement sharply. Celebrated photographers such as ...