You had to hold your breath and dive a little to get through.” That’s how speleologist Katiya Pavlova summarized the ...

The Aztec, Olmec, and Maya of Mesoamerica are known to have made rubber using natural latex—a milky, sap-like fluid found in some plants. Mesoamerica extends roughly from central Mexico to ...

National Museum of Art, Mexico City. Following the fall of Tenochtitlan, an Aztec poet composed a searing account of the capture of the capital city. Written in the Nahuatl language, using the ...

LOS ANGELES -- In celebration of Earth Month, National Geographic is giving viewers a never-before-seen look at the world of penguins! "If you follow a penguin just for a day, you will realize ...

National Geographic is taking an unprecedented look back in a new three-part docuseries called "Oklahoma City Bombing: One Day in America." On April 19, 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building ...

It should go without saying: Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is not a Mexican version of Halloween. Where Halloween is a dark night of terror and mischief ...

The inaugural 'National Geographic 33' list includes the likes of Don Cheadle, Selena Gomez, Sterlin Harjo, Michelle Yeoh and Jason Momoa. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor When the National Geographic ...

By Rania Aniftos National Geographic announced on Tuesday (March 18) the launch of its National Geographic 33, a list honoring 33 individuals whose “imaginative ideas and unstoppable drive are ...

The ancient codex, composed around the time the Aztec Empire fell to Spanish conquistadors, features a story of a convulsion that lasted for up to five days, creating landslides and opening up a ...

Spencer had never before applied for a grant, but she learned about the Explorer grants a year prior at the National Geographic Explorer’s Festival—an annual event that brings together ...

Experience an ever-changing natural landscape Guatemala’s name originates from the Nahuatl (an Aztec language ... necessarily reflect the views of National Geographic, National Geographic ...

In the Americas, Aztec and Maya ruling families have been indentified from carved inscriptions. But without such records it's difficult to prove that leadership and power in ancient societies ...