From financing expeditions in the New World to founding hospitals and schools, these women were incredibly influential—and ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... First she took the mother back to the temazcal so she would sweat out toxins.

This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... Every hoplite pressed hard against the back of the man in front, while those in the first ...

Despite being rivals, many Athenians admired the government, clothing, and austerity of the Spartans. Falling prey to ...

This story appears in the December 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine ... with Nick and the others gone, I snowshoed back to the President alone. There had been too much to take in ...

This story appears in the May 2018 issue ... in the history of the world.” Back on the rim of the impact crater, Xavier Chiappa-Carrara, head of the academic unit of the National Autonomous ...

The Devil’s Climb, a new National Geographic ... issue. I knew about the Devils Thumb from reading [Jon] Krakauer’s account ...

Even the well-off, who could fall back on stocks of food and drink ... published in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. It has been updated.

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 ...

This story appears in the February 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... at an Oktoberfest to know that Germany has a long history with beer. But Germany also has a long history with ...

Midway along Ireland’s Atlantic Coast lies the Burren, an otherworldly landscape whose mesmerising limestone formations have ...

Condensing Athens — a metropolis that was established in the fifth century BCE — into 24 hours is near impossible, but this ...