Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ever sequenced.

Known today as the “Black Belt,” the southeastern United States was once covered by an ancient sea—one that continues to shape modern history. Frank Toland is a park ranger for Tuskegee Airmen ...

The National Geographic Society’s CEO reflects on its long history of global exploration and invites a future inspiring the Explorer in us all.

Traditional sources and scholars have long hypothesized the location of this sacred chest. But tracing its whereabouts is ...

Nat Geo Explorer Tara Roberts quit her job, learned to dive, and now helps discover the underwater wrecks of slave ships around the world with an incredible group of Black conservationists. National ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Few figures in history have done more to change our understanding of the natural world. We celebrate Jane Goodall’s remarkable life with rare images from the National Geographic archives. Ethologist, ...