In the fourth episode of our Stones & Bones video series, National Geographic digital editor Nicholas St. Fleur examines the ...

Julie Campbell of Washington and Lee University, a historian of all things horse in Virginia, nominated John Baylor, of Caroline County, as the most influential horseman of the 18th century.

A remarkable 2,200-year-old Roman shipwreck discovered off the coast of Croatia has revealed an unprecedented story of ancient maritime maintenance. The Ilovik-Paržine 1 wreck, which sank during the ...

Ancient charcoal fossils reveal that massive wildfires swept across Earth’s forests 237 million years ago, reshaping our ...

Lonnie Lincoln (Eugene Byrd) is a deuteragonist in the slightly overlooked Disney Plus show, and he has a richer plot arc ...

The surprisingly sophisticated shipbuilding and repair techniques supported ancient navies across the Adriatic Sea.

A soldier’s wound, a makeshift apartment lab and a risky self experiment: how curiosity, chance, and persistence led to ...

A newly confirmed mass grave in ancient Jordan offers chilling insight into one of history’s first pandemics. Hundreds of ...