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Bingham's discovery was published in the April 1913 issue of National Geographic magazine, bringing the mountaintop citadel to the world's attention. (The National Geographic Society helped fund ...

Fresh oysters, wetland birdwatching and lazy beach days make the little-known community of Oualidia a charming alternative to ...

“We didn’t expect to find traces of nicotine in cylindrical vases suited for drinking,” lead researcher Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos told History. The roots of Maya culture can be traced to ...

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Condensing Athens — a metropolis that was established in the fifth century BCE — into 24 hours is near impossible, but this ...

(Read Jimmy Carter's full letter to National Geographic.) It was pure Jimmy Carter ... D.C. Photograph by Universal History Archive, Universal Images Group/Getty Images Carter governed through ...