Ngugi wa Thiong’o can easily be called the Chinua Achebe of Eastern Africa or Shakespeare of the same, but with less ...

“It’s all about telling the story of wild animals in a way that hopefully gets the world to stop and pay attention,” Sartore said. Sartore is a National Geographic Explorer, wildlife ...

To honor Koko's memory, National Geographic is republishing "Conversations ... to express her displeasure, or to lie her way out of a jam, then she is exploiting language the way we do as human ...

This barrier divided the Mediterranean into west and east, turning the western mediterranean into a giant bowl: for the water to make its way east ... The nonprofit National Geographic Society ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK ... when the Vatican fought the threat of Protestantism the way it knew best — through an ostentatious display of power.

As spring begins, so does a fresh song at daybreak, unique to the season. Just before the sun rises, birds start singing their melodies, creating a chirpy symphony. “It's the epitome of spring ...

PHOTOGRAPH BY FIRE OF LOVE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTARY FILMS Katia and Maurice Krafft saw photography as way to remember, revisit, and stretch their time with volcanoes. This photo taken by ...

The mask can be seen today at the National Museum, Quito ... and scores of men had died along the way. Most of those who survived mutinied and returned to Panama. Pizarro was forced to continue ...

Scientists suspect many species are in decline—but there are still unanswered questions and a lot of hope. Here's when and where you can still spot them. Experts say a "concerning" number of ...

“We’re all touched by this in some way,” she says. “Everybody’s got a story to tell.” Sharon Guynup is a National Geographic explorer and a global fellow at the Wilson Center. She ...

From King Tut’s tomb to the Dead Sea Scrolls, there’s seemingly nothing archaeologists can’t unearth. So why haven’t they found Atlantis yet? It’s a question regularly fielded by real ...

“We’re trying to preserve it how he would have.” This story appears in the February 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine.