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

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

GTRES This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Mesopotamia—“the land between two rivers”—gave birth to many of the world’s first ...

It was pure Jimmy Carter: gentle in tone, pragmatic in approach, and deferential to changemakers working to improve the world for all ... in his letter to National Geographic.

Recovered from Nineveh in the late 19th century, shattered clay tablets covered in indecipherable writing held one of the world’s greatest ... In this 1951 National Geographic magazine ...

The Arctic is home to pristine artifacts. A few archeologists are rushing to find them, and the critical clues they can offer ...

This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... In the 1730s, he had proven that the world was flattened at the poles, just as Isaac Newton had ...

Bingham's discovery was published in the April 1913 issue of National Geographic magazine, bringing the mountaintop citadel to the world's attention. (The National Geographic Society helped fund ...

We mark this 50th anniversary of Earth Day with Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most renowned scientists and environmentalists. A new National Geographic documentary explores her life and work ...

National Geographic has been documenting our world for more than 130 years, immortalizing and documenting some of the most important moments in human history. This year’s Pictures of the Year ...

Marking 20 years since one of the deadliest natural disasters in history, National Geographic will premiere ... from around the world and conducted interviews with over 100 individuals, some ...