Inside Richard Leakey's discovery of an ancient human ancestor skull—the same his parents had chased

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

How scientists are cracking the secrets of the world’s oldest tattoos

Turns out, ancient body art is a lot more common than we once thought—and it's providing historians with new ways of ...

The search for Cleopatra’s long-lost tomb leads to sunken seaport

She’s among the most famous leaders in world history, yet archeologists still don’t know the location of Egyptian Queen ...

Exclusive: Ancient port from Cleopatra’s time found underwater in Egypt

During her hunt for the Egyptian queen’s lost tomb, National Geographic Explorer Kathleen Martínez uncovered the sunken ...
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Underwater Explorers Discover an Ancient Port That Dates Back to Cleopatra’s Era

I’ve never seen anything like this,' Bob Ballard, a National Geographic explorer, said about the recent discovery.

Ancient Egyptian Port From Cleopatra’s Era Discovered Underwater

"The port was active during the time of Cleopatra and before at the beginning of the dynasty," noted the archaeologist behind the discovery.

Scientists discover life-sized camels carved into rocks in the Arabian Desert

The drawings—the oldest dated monumental rock art in Arabia—are the firmest evidence that humans lived there during a dry ...