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.

The Swiss canton of Glarus has voted this way since medieval times—with the goal to find a solution that's “a little bit OK ...

Recent headlines have drawn attention to naming conventions and mapping technology. But maps have always been political, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Published in the May 2025 issue of National Geographic Traveller (UK). To subscribe to National Geographic Traveller (UK) magazine click here . (Available in select countries only).