Explore the geopolitical tensions leading up to World War 1! This short explains how Serbia, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, and the United Kingdom set the stage for global conflict in 1914.

Letters written on Aug. 15, 1916, by two Australian soldiers serving in France during World War I have been discovered more than a century later. One of the letter-writers survived the war; the other ...

Messages in a bottle written by two World War I soldiers have been discovered on Australia's coast. The Brown family found ...

From historic Everest summits to Jane Goodall’s chimpanzee research, National Geographic magazine and its famed covers have ...

Tombs scattered across China, built between the 4,000-year old Xia Dynasty and the modern era, reflect the political and ...

The story of the first phone call and how it sparked the technologies that connect billions of people every day.

Never before had death affected so many people at once, and taken so many young men in the prime of their life.

Daniel Jackson, a 20-year-old Australian, is the self-declared “president” of the “Free Republic of Verdis,” located on a patch of land in the Danube River between Croatia and Serbia.

Explore the fascinating history of countries that vanished after World War 1. Discover how the global landscape was reshaped ...

Masked thieves stole priceless jewels from the Louvre on Sunday morning. The Paris museum has suffered a string of successful art heists, dating back to the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911.

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A deep sense of unease has gripped Iran since American and Israeli airstrikes in June, but on a recent visit to the capital, we found that many Iranians seemed to be just trying to get by. Young ...