Their enemies portrayed them as barbarians, but their artifacts tell a different story. Between their weapons, jewelry, and ...

Inside the foundry forging $15,000 artisanal samurai swords It can take more than a year to make a single razor-sharp katana. In Japan, business is booming for the few remaining smiths who know ...

A deadlock over the distribution of power threatened to derail the creation of a constitution for the newly formed United ...

In 1822, freed Black Americans began resettling in a colony on the west coast of Africa. But the idea was controversial: Was ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. In the Colonies, slavery and resistance were restless bedfellows, as evidenced by several large-scale ...

This story appears in the October 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a chilly January afternoon, Susannah Maidment stands on the shore of a London lake, staring down a pack of dinosaurs.

Andrew Lawler is the author of The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Mark Thiessen is a staff photographer for National Geographic.

Lindblad Expeditions, National Geographic and Food & Wine magazine partner in 2024 for wine-inspired trips on the Columbia ...

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This story appears in the April 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The wreck sleeps in darkness, a puzzlement of corroded steel strewn across a thousand acres of the North Atlantic seabed ...

Fresh advances in 3D scanning technology are making it possible to explore some of the hardest-to-reach and most fragile sites on Earth.

The timeless show has become a Christmas stalwart and a major source of revenue for ballet companies. But it wasn’t always so successful.