How did ancient Egyptian obelisks end up all over the world? How did ancient Egyptian obelisks end up all over the world? Do you have poor posture at work? So did the ancient Egyptians Do you have ...

Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city of Meroë was the seat of power of Kush, an ancient kingdom and rival to Egypt. Kushite culture blended Egyptian customs into its own ...

This story appears in the May 2017 issue of National Geographic ... known synthetic pigment, Egyptian blue is found in some of the paint that still colors ancient statues, coffins, and tomb ...

But Salima Ikram, an Egyptologist at the American University in Cairo and a National Geographic Society grantee, believes the curse concept did exist in ancient Egypt as part of a primitive ...

This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Built in the sixth century at the foot of Mount Sinai in Egypt ... medical treatise by the ancient Greco-Roman physician ...

The stunning 1922 find of Tutankhamun’s tomb opened a window into Egypt's golden past. 100 years later, his riches still have much to reveal. We dig into the missing heart of ancient Egyptian ...

From Caesar to Napoleon, the Pyramids to the Parthenon, the Trojan War to the Civil War—National Geographic History draws readers in with more than 5,000 years of people, places, and things to ...