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 ...

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and more.

Their tangle with Egypt’s Ramses the Great at the Battle of Kadesh resulted in the world’s first peace ... by the standards of ancient history, incredibly new. Hittite writing wasn’t ...

For archaeologists today, the wreck is a time capsule, a single moment of history preserved. Like the tomb of an ancient pharaoh, it offers a unique window into a long-lost world. The legendary ...

Archaeologists in Oman uncovered a 4,000-year-old musical instrument, a pair of copper cymbals, in the ruins of an ancient ...

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

Leadership lessons need not come from the modern day; they can also be found in ancient history. Emily Poncia looks at some of ... the largest land-based empire the world has ever seen. Given the size ...

For many years, the ancient Greeks and Romans were fooled ... need such jealous guarding with elaborate tall tales. But the world’s demand for spices grew throughout the Roman era and into ...

“I love rock inscriptions, they give you a page of history without excavating ... which are like Excel spreadsheets of the ancient world—all of it has the clarity, power and sophistication ...

The Hagia Sophia remains a highly popular tourist destination, attracting millions of travelers. Here is a detailed look at ...

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 ...