Nikkolas Smith, the bestselling illustrator, has a new children's book that takes a look at the innovative, creative dawn of ...

Discovered in a remote Ottoman town in 1884, the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century Middle East. A detail of the Madaba Map ...

Across the continent, thousands of Fulani people are holding fast to their ancient customs—while reshaping their traditions ...

When communities are constantly on the move, they lose political power. In Senegal, Awa Sow has radical ideas to change all ...

Everything changed in the last year. Newly available records from the National Archives’ Freedman’s Bureau provide earlier and richer data about the American experience, often predating the ...

“I think it was inevitable that there would be discoveries of evidence of modern humans in other parts of Africa, and it’s also inevitable that the dates are liable to be pushed back,” says ...

With the help of the National Geographic Society, Buettner set out to locate places that not only had high concentrations of individuals over 100 years old, but also clusters of people who had ...

Reuben Wu, a British photographer and visual artist based in Chicago, was first introduced to National Geographic as most⁠ people are: When he was a child, he enjoyed looking at the magazines ...

National Geographic's 100 best images of the year ... flown from Tembe and Mkuze game reserves in Kwazulu Natal, South Africa, to Mozambique in June 2018. The wild lions will be released into ...

For the past 20 years writing for National Geographic, I’ve identified and studied the world’s longest-lived areas, which I call blue zones. These places—Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia ...

A scientist examines an axolotl x-ray at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico City. What’s more, understanding axolotl genetics could ...

Since 2005, National Geographic Explorer Zeb Hogan has been searching the world to find the world’s largest fish. In mid-June, a team he leads in Cambodia got a call from a fisherman named Moul ...