The monument’s mysterious past has spawned countless tales and theories. According to folklore, Stonehenge was created by ...

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 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...

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.

The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and ...

Appearing only once in the story of Jesus' birth, the wise men from the East made a lasting impression in the Christian imagination.