National Geographic plans to open a 100,000-square-foot museum in downtown D.C. by mid-2026, the organization announced ...

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

Linda and Paul Katz from Chesapeake, Virginia, said a cruise with National Geographic-Lindblad Expeditions had been on their bucket list for several years as longtime fans of NatGeo’s magazine a ...

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.

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

That's relatively recent in geologic time: If all Earth's history were compressed into an hour, flowering plants would exist for only the last 90 seconds. But once they took firm root about 100 ...

The breakthrough could literally change history. Some earthquakes are imperceptibly quiet. We may not feel them, but machines might detect them—and they can point scientists to a potential "Big ...

This story appears in the January 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the winter of ... “It works this way at every point in human history. A society develops an enabling technology ...

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 June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. From the English ... of Raleigh’s Virginia voyages to the history and culture of the modern world is often forgotten ...

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 ...

This story appears in the April 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Early on a cold June ... Each catastrophe forced the Japanese to bury history and rebuild, reimagining neighborhoods ...