From Caesar to Napoleon, the Pyramids to the Parthenon, the Trojan War to the Civil War—National Geographic History draws readers in with more than 5,000 years of people, places, and things to ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Where do babies come from? The Aztecs’ answer to the classic child’s question was that they came ...

Photograph by Werner Forman, GTRES This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Mesopotamia—“the land between two rivers”—gave birth to ...

This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Sparta’s enemies, when facing the intimidating Spartan forces, would see a wall of shields ...

Vases found in Guatemala offer rare physical proof of tobacco use among ancient Maya, but with a twist: This time, they didn’t inhale.

This story originally published in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. It has been updated.

This story appears in the September 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Your National Geographic ... the closest thing to an empire in Maya history. It was ruled by the Snake kings of ...

Amy Briggs is the Executive Editor of National Geographic History magazine . This story appears in the July/August 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. It was first published online ...

This story appears in the May 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Cheryl Dinges is ... the one guy getting out alive.” The genetic history of sisters Carolyn Schear (at right) and ...

This story appears in the December 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a gentle slope ... I wondered about its history. I contemplated its durability and its patience.

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. On a spring day in 1480, Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia ordered various astrologers to his home in Rome to ...

This story appears in the October 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. IN JANUARY 2012 ... Seen from higher still, from the vantage of history, this killing field is not new at all.