Your kitchen might be spotless, your meals fresh and carefully prepared. Yet something invisible is ending up on your plate.

A spontaneous visit to Sucre's General Cemetery became my most joyful day in South America, full of flowers, life, and ...

Pyramid Lake survived a thrilling, back-and-forth game and emerged with a win in the 1A state boys basketball quarterfinals. The Lakers edged Owyhee, 58-56, on Thursday at North Valleys in a boys ...

A 2025 satellite image shows a series of ghostly ice swirls sculpted on the surface of Lake Michigan by strong winds during ...

The central Mexican city of Xochicalco was established around a.d. 670 atop a 400-foot-tall hill. At the city’s highest level, which was only accessible through three defended porticoes, stands its ...

Taxus, commonly known as yew, stands as perhaps the most versatile evergreen for formal garden structures. Its dense, dark ...

Restoration on the 4,400-year-old Pyramid of Sahura led researchers to create a more comprehensive blueprint of the structure. Using LiDAR imaging, the team confirmed the presence of previously ...

Archaeologists working in a tunnel beneath Teotihuacan's Pyramid of the Sun have unearthed two caches of artifacts that may have been meant to consecrate the massive building's construction around a.d ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Amelia Blanford Edwards was one of a stream of European travelers drawn to see the wonders of Egypt at ...