With its Roman mosaics, grand stately homes and baroque city gates, this small Maltese city preserves traces of its ancient history.

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Unsure where to ski this winter? Get tips from those in the know, including Olympians, instructors and TV commentators.

Caffeine offers some real health benefits—but not if you go overboard. Here’s how coffee, energy drinks, and other caffeine ...

Photojournalist Ami Vitale followed Przewalski’s horses—once declared extinct in the wild—on a 2,000-mile journey back to ...

The Monuments Men and Women Foundation is on the hunt to recover stolen masterpieces—and they say this could be our best ...

Calakmul remained relatively undisturbed until gum harvesters in Mexico led an American botanist to them in 1931. Here’s what ...

For five short December days each year, sunlight pierces the heart of Newgrange, a 5,200-year-old tomb whose perfect ...

A new analysis aims to answer a longstanding question about why the plague reached Europe when it did—and why it spread so ...

National Geographic Explorer Peter Campell provides an inside look at the early stages of a heritage crime investigation.

National Geographic Explorer Paolo Verzone provides a rare peek inside a stellarator, an experiment that aims to give the world near-limitless clean energy.