Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and migrated offshore.

New Zealand is the last place you'd expect to see California redwoods, but this forest boasts leafy giants along with an epic ...

The world’s oldest map of the night sky was amazingly accurate. Newly discovered fragments of 2,200-year-old star coordinates—once thought lost—reveal the incredible skill of the ancient ...

On December 7, 1941, Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor. Maps, both historic and newly created by National Geographic, yield new insights into the full scope of Japan's battle plans for the day ...

A massive landmass called Zealandia was submerged beneath the southwest Pacific Ocean, and geologists took up the task to map the unknown region.