For years the Nile held the crown but new evidence is changing everything. One river may be longer than we ever realized ...

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam was built for electricity generation. By this measure, the project has been a short-term success, but in the long-term, environmental concerns arise. Proactive ...

Water scarcity in Africa is a crisis, and the GERD conflict shows why mutually beneficial cooperation agreements are vital.

Now, Franck Goddio, the French underwater archaeologist who rediscovered Thonis-Heracleion, says the 82-foot-long (25-meter-long) military ship was discovered in the major canal that flowed along the ...

Europe is a popular destination for river cruises, but some of the world’s most amazing river journeys exist outside of ...

Maynard Owen Williams was National Geographic's first foreign correspondent, and in 1923 he was on hand for an event the ...

Archaeologists reveal that Egypt’s Karnak Temple was built on a 3,000-year-old natural island formed by the Nile, linking mythology with engineering and landscape.

See the sources for this fact-check During a White House visit from Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President Donald Trump expanded on his oft-repeated boast about ending multiple wars and made ...

When life feels hectic, nothing beats the calming rhythm of a flowing river. River escapes offer a unique blend of serenity, ...

Our next adventure took us to Aswan, the gateway to Egypt’s mystical south. We boarded a super-fast night train, gliding ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...