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.

In 1862, jewelry engraver and amateur photographer William H. Mumler was developing a self-portrait in his Boston studio when a ghostly image began to surface. Just below his own image in the photo ...

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.

It was the biggest Russian victory during the First World War, and at the same time the most costly in terms of human lives.

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