Photograph by Werner Forman, GTRES This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. There are many theories ...

There are parts of the excavation site that date back to the Sasanian Empire of the 3 rd through 7 th centuries, but a majority of the best-preserved parts of the site are remnants of the Old ...

Scans of mummies at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History uncovered new details about how they were prepared for the ...

In his work titled Natural History, he wrote ... My current work is about health in the ancient world, the subject of an upcoming book. I am also involved in the editing of unpublished papyri ...

William Dalrymple has spent decades writing about history, but he’s discovered that an even bigger audience wants to hear him ...

A rare Triassic fossil unearthed in Brazil, Gondwanax paraisensis, could provide new insights into the origins of dinosaurs.

Researchers are unlocking the ancient secrets of the world's most diverse marine habitat. Could their discoveries help us save our oceans? In an office wing of the Natural History Museum in London ...

The discoveries shed new light on life in ancient Mesopotamia ... B.C.E. when Mesopotamia was home to the Sumerians – one of the world’s first major civilizations. According to a Facebook ...

Ancient finds shape how we view history - and the world. Click or swipe through to see some of those discoveries as they're uncovered. Scientists at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History ...

Staggeringly diverse rock art motifs in galleries across what is today Serranía De La Lindosa, Colombia, record a history of ...

A new study revives the old argument that ancient seals came before cuneiform, humanity's earliest known example of writing.