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As National Geographic reimagines its iconic headquarters for the 21st century, here’s a look back at its history as a base for both Cold War spies and the Society’s own Explorers.

A thundering conservation success story, the park also harbors almost 1,300 wild elephants; 1,800 Asiatic wild water buffalo, the largest remaining population anywhere; perhaps 9,000 hog deer; 800 ...

Photograph by Werner Forman, GTRES This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... seemed in the distant past. Babylon enjoyed its heyday during ...

The breakthrough could literally change history. Some earthquakes are imperceptibly ... Can we prevent AI from compounding problems from our past? Four experts weigh in. Abandoned at an airport ...

This story appears in the June 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s nearly midnight on the broad hill called Firmihin, where a dragon’s blood forest grows. The moon, a night past ...

Bingham's discovery was published in the April 1913 issue of National Geographic magazine ... need to protect the lost city that, before the past century, the world didn't know existed.

This story appears in the March 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. The path leads up a hill, across a fast-moving stream, back across the stream, and then past the carcass of a sheep.

Explore the relics of failed settlements, doomed expeditions, and ancient Inuit history on Devon Island ... from Belcher’s cairns at Port Refuge National Historic Site, archaeologists have ...

This story appears in the September 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... and became the closest thing to an empire in Maya history. It was ruled by the Snake kings of the Kaanul dynasty ...

(Explore the past 200 years of U.S. immigration ... Amy Briggs is the Executive Editor of National Geographic History magazine . This story appears in the July/August 2017 issue of National ...

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.