This remarkable fortress is considered the crowning glory of Muslim rule on the Iberian Peninsula. We were given access to its darkest recesses, where tourists aren’t allowed.

On December 7, 1941, Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor. Maps, both historic and newly created by National Geographic, yield new insights into the full scope of Japan's battle plans for the day ...

The world’s oldest map of the night sky was amazingly accurate Newly discovered fragments of 2,200-year-old star coordinates—once thought lost—reveal the incredible skill of the ancient ...

The political fallout led the Nepali government to seal the region more tightly than ever before. This was the world in which Jigme was raised, a forbidden kingdom isolated among some of the ...

The map that NASA launched in 1972 could lead extraterrestrials to Earth. A new map, nearly 50 years later, provides even better directions. A sparkling mass containing at least half a million ...

In the first century B.C, King Antiochus I of Commagene built a sanctuary unlike any of his predecessors. His unexplored tomb at Nemrut Dağ may show us more about death and worship in ancient Turkey.

Greta Thunberg: Well, we have moved from lots of physical things, meetings and strikes and so on, to doing it digitally.But, I mean, since we are a movement of people who don't fly because of the ...

Icon depicting the Emperor Constantine and the fathers of the Council of Nicaea of 325 with the Greek text of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed of 381 in its liturgical form.

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They are followed by books that focus more closely on the interconnections between the oceans and climate change. Two books ...

The best step, Wang says, would be “to discuss the origin in a totally non-political environment and with an open mind, recognizing that SARS-CoV-2-related viruses most likely exist in bats ...

Technology has become the cornerstone of modern influence. Nations are racing to master critical technologies that will ...