The monument’s mysterious past has spawned countless tales and theories. According to folklore, Stonehenge was created by ...
From historic Everest summits to Jane Goodall’s chimpanzee research, National Geographic magazine and its famed covers have shared the expanse of our world with readers for well over a century.
Traditional sources and scholars have long hypothesized the location of this sacred chest. But tracing its whereabouts is ...
While excavating clay cylinders in Syria, archaeologists discovered a rare find: an early writing system. The script has given scholars the new challenge of reinvestigating the timeline of alphabetic ...
The breakthrough is often credited to Scottish inventor John Logie Baird—but the real history is far more complicated and ...
Colonialism is closely related to imperialism. Imperialism is the policy or ethos of using power and influence to control ...
The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...
Plague, and the infamous Black Death, spread quickly for centuries, killing millions. Plague still occurs but can be treated with antibiotics.