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

Dinosaur stories are often written for children, with a cast of neon cartoon characters or animatronic models. But for adults ...

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

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Maynard Owen Williams was National Geographic's first foreign correspondent, and in 1923 he was on hand for an event the ...

An archaeologist is piecing together what the V-shaped stone structures—some stretching 500 feet long—were used for.

Noted Biblical Scholar Dr. James Tabor will appear at The Shipyard in the Town at Trilith in Fayetteville, Georgia, on ...

As it celebrates 10 years in business, Canadian independent producer Go Button Media is going into production on two new factual series: War Trains (8 x 60) and ...

At the age of 19, I was working as a kitchen-hand in a Brisbane hotel. My fellow pot washer Stuart, a cheerful Kiwi with huge ...

The Heart of Wales Line is one of the most scenic train journeys in the UK, winding through lush forests, rolling hills and ...

Over 6 centuries ago that a bearded vulture flew from its hunting grounds into a sheltered cave nesting site and dropped off ...

For decades, the popular theory was bleak: the islanders, obsessed with their statues, supposedly deforested their island to move the moai using wooden rollers and sledges. This narrative, popularized ...