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Photograph by Werner Forman, GTRES This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Mesopotamia—“the land between two rivers”—gave birth to ...

This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Throughout history, small states have come out of nowhere, and rapidly become great powers. This was the ...

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 ...

This story appears in the November 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Go see the child ... An extraordinary global health history had been abbreviated, in a way, on Sanjida’s little ...

(How Nessie and the Yeti birthed a global cryptid-chasing industry.) This story appeared in the September/October 2024 issue of National Geographic History magazine.

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