Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped ...

But this misunderstanding of the geisha strips them of a centuries-long history rooted in culture and art. Shichiha poses during the makeup process. After applying oshiroi, the white makeup base ...

Some 500 years ago, the Chimú in what is now Peru ritually killed hundreds of their young in the largest mass child sacrifice events known in world history. Now archaeologists are trying to ...

Photograph by Werner Forman, GTRES This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... resonated in Judeo-Christian culture for centuries.

This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... whose language and culture would deeply mark his future reign. Considering those pursuits effeminate ...

Budapest has an obscure, 2,000-year-old link to Halloween, which it celebrates annually amid archaeological remains connected to magicians, death hexes, and naked cult rituals. Each October 31, this ...