15 min read This story appears in the April 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. One last chance ... of early 20th-century explorers: bearded men standing on Kotelnyy Island, dwarfed ...

This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. During a trip to ... worn throughout the Americas have roots in African, European, and indigenous traditions but ...

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

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

This story appears in the December 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s apparition ... mostly hockey dads from the Boston area, plus two men and two women with stage 4 cancer.

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. From the English ship ... leaving behind more than a hundred men, women, and children. But his return voyage had been ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. To see all that ... We turn to them for healing: Turtle meat in West Africa was once believed to fight leprosy ...

At the National Museum of African American History and Culture, "In Slavery's Wake" tells the international history of ...

While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.