After the British Raj was established, the Indian kurta pajama became fashionable across Europe and was eventually adapted ...

Normal sledding pace is less than five miles an hour. When Jesper crashed, they were a little more than halfway through the ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Depicted on a tetradrachm, the Olympian Dionysus was the god of wine, an important part of the ...

Dandan-Oilik was once a thriving complex packed with Buddhist temples in the Taklimakan desert. What do we know now about ...

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. From the English ... of Raleigh’s Virginia voyages to the history and culture of the modern world is often forgotten ...

National Geographic photographer Jodi Cobb took a detour into the town of Plains, Georgia—and found a town giddy with the ...

From snorkeling among basking sharks in Scotland to hiking through history in the Peak District, these eco-conscious ...

When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

From Japan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist’s Out of Eden Walk marks 12 years, with North America on the horizon.

Ivy is faced with the long human history of destruction ... the Jan/Feb 2025 issue of National Geographic Traveller (UK). To ...