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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.

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.

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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 ...

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 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/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 ...

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