The breakthrough could literally change history. Some earthquakes are imperceptibly quiet. We may not feel them, but machines ...

Ruled by Hammurabi, restored by Nebuchadrezzar, conquered by Cyrus—this city in the heart of Mesopotamia was both desired and despised, placing it at the center stage of the dawn of history.

Son of an abusive father, Frederick II blossomed when he took the throne. He attracted the great thinkers of Europe to his court while establishing Prussia as a dominant military power.

In 1933, two eye-witness claimed to have seen a prehistoric-like animal in the waters of a Scottish lake. In the following ...

A thundering conservation success story, the park also harbors almost 1,300 wild elephants; 1,800 Asiatic wild water buffalo, the largest remaining population anywhere; perhaps 9,000 hog deer; 800 ...

About 35 leopards live in and around this park. That’s an average of less than two square miles of habitat apiece, for animals that can easily range ten miles in a day. These leopards also live ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... First she took the mother back to the temazcal so she would sweat out toxins.

This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... Every hoplite pressed hard against the back of the man in front, while those in the first ...

From financing expeditions in the New World to founding hospitals and schools, these women were incredibly influential—and ...

Even the well-off, who could fall back on stocks of food and drink ... published in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. It has been updated.

Made up of six states, this region in the north east of the US is best known for its history and culture, but its coastal ...

Skyscrapers meet the sea in South Korea’s second-largest city. And as the home of the first surf schools in the country, it’s ...