Imagine standing on ground that has witnessed millions of years of Earth’s story unfold—where breathtaking landscapes and ...

Imagine standing at the rim of a vast caldera, the earth beneath your feet formed by unimaginable forces millions of years ...

Their tangle with Egypt’s Ramses the Great at the Battle of Kadesh resulted in the world’s first peace ... by the standards of ancient history, incredibly new. Hittite writing wasn’t ...

In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...

Photograph by Werner Forman, GTRES This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. There are many theories ...

“I love rock inscriptions, they give you a page of history without excavating ... which are like Excel spreadsheets of the ancient world—all of it has the clarity, power and sophistication ...

Over the weekend, three Italian researchers looking in to the Giza necropolis - Professor Corrado Malanga and Filippo Biondi from the University of Pisa and University of Strathclyde respectively, ...

The Hagia Sophia remains a highly popular tourist destination, attracting millions of travelers. Here is a detailed look at ...

This sculpture from the Parthenon shows a Centaur rearing triumphantly over a dying human Lapith. This focus on human suffering epitomises the intense humanism of Greek art. The sculpture also ...

While on a hike with her family, a child stumbled across a 3,800-year-old Egyptian amulet. It will go on display in an ...