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 ...

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 ...

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 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 February 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. In 1418 the town ... have been one of the first alarm clocks in history. Applying his theoretical and mechanical ...

This story originally published in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. It has been updated.

This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Lots of people are ... and civilizations throughout history. In a story from our issue, Robin Marantz Henig writes ...

Bingham's discovery was published in the April 1913 issue of National Geographic magazine, bringing the mountaintop citadel to the world's attention. (The National Geographic Society helped fund ...

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.

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 ...

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