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During the turmoil and wars of the Renaissance, tarot’s earliest users found a similar solace. This story appeared in the September/October 2024 issue of National Geographic History magazine.

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 ...

5 min read This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Icelandic sagas tell how the 10th-century Viking sailor Leif Eriksson stumbled on a new ...

From western toad tadpoles to glowing wetlands, this year’s winners capture nature’s beauty—and its fragility.

In the early 1800s, a Swiss explorer tricked his way into Petra, the ancient oasis whose location had been a closely guarded secret for centuries. Known as Ed Deir—the Monastery—this building ...

(Read Jimmy Carter's full letter to National Geographic.) It was pure Jimmy Carter ... D.C. Photograph by Universal History Archive, Universal Images Group/Getty Images Carter governed through ...

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“The general thought of the time was that Africa was sort of backwards,” reflects anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer Keneiloe Molopyane. “So why would you find human origins in ...

Bingham's discovery was published in the April 1913 issue of National Geographic magazine, bringing the mountaintop citadel to the world's attention. (The National Geographic Society helped fund ...

what more severe than slavery; what more laborious than necessity?” This story appeared in the September/October 2024 issue of National Geographic History magazine.

Here are the stories of the symbols and traditions that have honored friendships throughout history and around the world. For much of history, bonds of friendship have been strengthened and ...