This story appears in the July 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Those of the great gods on the Greek island of Samothrace took place at night, with flickering torch fire pointing ...

In ancient Greece, wealthy men often gathered for ... This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Depicted on a tetradrachm, the Olympian ...

This ancient script has remained unsolved for over a century This ancient script has remained unsolved for over a century Inside the world of ancient medical tourism Inside the world of ancient ...

This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... them—not to the beat of drums, but as the Greek historian Thucydides explains, “to the ...

Hey Parents! If you have a mythology aficionado in the house or want your kids to discover Greek mythology, check out Nat Geo Kids Greeking Out! It’s a podcast for the whole family that retells ...

This story appears in the December 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine ... itself from the secular corpus of northeastern Greece. For the past thousand years or so, a community of Eastern ...

National Geographic Fellow and researcher who coined Blue Zones, Dan Buettner, has learned plenty about the longer lifespans ...

Not so the Acropolis. On the long-ago bright September day when I landed for the first time in Greece aboard the S.S. Olympia, I took a taxi from Piraeus to Athens. Approaching the city from the ...

From Caesar to Napoleon, the Pyramids to the Parthenon, the Trojan War to the Civil War—National Geographic History draws readers in with more than 5,000 years of people, places, and things to ...