For over a decade, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek has woven a tapestry of ...

The origins of Rome have been debated for centuries but one tale has prevailed over the rest: twin brothers Romulus and Remus ...

The extinct animal's face structure could help explain how vertebrates, including ourselves, evolved our distinctive look.

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...

LOS ANGELES -- She lived as the last ruler of ancient Egypt, but little is known about Cleopatra's death. For 2000 years, the location of her tomb has been a mystery with few leads, until now.

The fossils indicate that P. boisei ’s human-like hand proportions would have allowed it to handle stone tools with dexterity ...

A brilliant improvisation that instantly leveled the battlefield. Facing Germany's fearsome Tiger tank, Britain desperately ...

According to legend, the medieval manuscript was made out of a pact with the Devil, which is one reason why it is sometimes referred to as the Devil’s Bible. The uniformity of the writing suggests ...

Many unexpected human artifacts have been preserved, for centuries, in vulture nests. This sandal woven from grasses and twigs, called an agobía, is somewhere between 727 and 771 years old, ...

Sprawled across much of the Arabian Peninsula, today’s Arabian Desert is known for brutal heat, dry, harsh winds and scarce water—hardly hospitable to human settlers unaided by air conditioning and a ...

Putting people into sleep mode is a sci-fi concept that's a lot closer to becoming real than you might think. Erin Belback is part of an ongoing human trial backed by NASA that aims to replicate the ...

Australia has embraced fast fashion, becoming the world’s largest per capita consumer of textiles with one of the highest ...