They believed that fully excavating Eridu could byield important data on the earliest phases of Mesopotamian history. Excavations at Eridu have uncovered a large number of objects spanning a wide ...

These historical figures had serious opinions on how to start the morning right. Even history's most accomplished figures—such as Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius—had a hard time getting out of bed.

The December 18 explosion is the region’s fourth in three years—and has fired out 10 times more lava per second than any of the past three at their peaks. Here's what happens next. Local ...

With some planning, tourists can cover the City of Lights like Parisians, on two wheels. Here’s a four-step guide on how to do it. Travelers can explore Paris’s famed attractions from the seat ...

His efforts then and throughout his career as a diver, explorer, and scientist opened the door for Black divers to explore the ocean—and their own history—in ways that hadn’t been done before.

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Mexican artist José María Jara painted the scene in 1889. National Museum of Art, Mexico City. Following the fall of Tenochtitlan, an Aztec poet composed a searing account of the capture of the ...

a frequent National Geographic photographer, has won the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year, awarded today by London’s Natural History Museum, which organizes the competition annually ...

“We all celebrated together,” he recalled in a 2016 oral history with the 1947 Partition ... independence movement within the Indian National Congress, a political party that had been formed ...

I’m Amy Briggs, executive editor of National Geographic History magazine, and this is Overheard at National Geographic—a show where we eavesdrop on the wild conversations we have here at Nat ...

The National Geographic Society, committed to illuminating and protecting the wonder of our world, has funded Explorer Thomas P. Peschak’s storytelling around biodiversity since 2017.

Channel Islands National Park includes Santa Rosa Island, a virtual natural history museum with miles of uncrowded trails and breathtaking cliff-top ocean views. White sand beaches greet travelers ...