Bressay may be hidden in plain sight just across from Lerwick but it’s easily the most rewarding seven-minute ferry ride you’ll ever take ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

Seaweed bathing in Ireland, a trek through Africa’s first designated wilderness quiet park—we asked National Geographic staff ...

And this means we might have been thinking about the origins of syphilis in an entirely wrong way. While the French ...

Research shows the Ishtar Temple at Assur was built on imported sand, revealing early ritual practices and the timeline of ...

What’s particularly exciting about finds like this is that we just so rarely have wood preserved for that long,” the study’s ...

Military history expert and TV presenter Dan Snow reviews the most realistic movie battle scenes of all time. Spanning the ...

The twin reactors of Hinkley Point C in Somerset will form the first nuclear power plant built in the UK for 30 years.

The monument’s mysterious past has spawned countless tales and theories. According to folklore, Stonehenge was created by ...

A major debate over the construction of the mysterious Neolithic Stonehenge site in the UK may finally have been resolved.

The Holyrood elections, whatever their outcome, will provoke discussion about the future of the Union. A visitor from another ...

In the 19th century, preserved bodies were not only ceremonially unveiled; owning one became a status symbol. “It would be ...