This story appears in the December 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Today the iconic image of Afghanistan is again a young woman—Bibi Aisha, whose husband slashed off her nose ...

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place ...

Linking Delhi, the Taj Mahal and the pink city of Jaipur, with detours for temples and tigers, this is the perfect route for ...

This story appears in the December 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine ... plus two men and two women with stage 4 cancer. We’re led by 59-year-old Arthur Boyle, a father of 13, who ...

This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine ... They squatted side by side on the dirt, a crowd of village women holding sari cloth around them as a makeshift ...

Matthieu Paley photographed Afghanistan’s Kyrgyz for our February 2013 issue. The magazine thanks The Rockefeller Foundation and members of the National Geographic Society for their generous ...

Afghanistan has had a tumultuous recent past. In the last three decades, the country has been occupied by Soviet troops and US-led international forces, and in the years in between has been ruled by ...

Federal workers all over the country responded with anger and confusion amid Trump's aggressive effort to shrink the size of ...

Federal workers all over the country have responded with anger and confusion Friday toward President Donald Trump’s ...