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 ...

The final 20 photos were narrowed down from a pool of 2.3 million − 300,000 more than in 2023, Nat Geo Editor-in-Chief Nathan ...

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 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 ...

National Geographic is expanding its unscripted slate with four new series greenlights. “These new unscripted series ...

This story appears in the January 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the winter of ... “It works this way at every point in human history. A society develops an enabling technology ...

This story originally published in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the fall of ... to pass himself off as someone else. The history of humankind is strewn with crafty ...

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.

National Geographic's new museum plans place visitors inside the stories and inspire a new generation of explorers ...

National Geographic plans to open a 100,000-square ... the building through an 11-foot yellow rectangle, as a nod to the magazine’s classic yellow border. (The Washington Post) Make living ...