They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

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

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

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 ...

In addition to the many magnificent historical monuments in Greece, the country boasts several unique sunken cities and ...

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, ...

However, the discovery is soon embroiled in controversy, and Makis embarks on his own odyssey to convince the world he is right. Rick Steves' Europe: Art of Ancient Greece Ancient Greece laid the ...

The ruins of a prehistoric skyscraper: New research is revealing how Cornish tin appears to have boosted a long-lost Bronze Age Mediterranean civilization. This aerial photo shows that ...

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 ...