While much of the country’s attention will be on the East Coast to mark the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of ...

While excavating clay cylinders in Syria, archaeologists discovered a rare find: an early writing system. The script has given scholars the new challenge of reinvestigating the timeline of alphabetic ...

Researchers in Israel dug for years for evidence—and what they found may have implications for modern residents of the region ...

Winter needn’t be your off-season. There are magnificent hikes to be enjoyed on many of the continent’s coastlines and ...

The monument’s mysterious past has spawned countless tales and theories. According to folklore, Stonehenge was created by ...

As the days begin to get longer, thousands gather across Ireland and Scotland to celebrate the return of the light after a ...

Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role. New archaeological finds add to evidence that the Maya city of Tikal in ...

The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and complex links with neighbors.

Between 1998 and 2009, John Mitani witnessed 18 murders firsthand, and found circumstantial evidence for three more. But no police were ever called, for these killers were all chimpanzees, from the ...

With Historia and Viajes, National Geographic España has shown how heritage, innovation and editorial instinct can redefine a ...

Picture an aircraft streaking across the sky at hundreds of miles per hour, unleashing millions of laser pulses into a dense ...

An elephant bone discovered in Spain may date to the time of Hannibal's battles against the Romans. A 2,200-year-old bone ...