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This story appears in the November 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. In 1888 an Egyptian farmer digging in the sand near the village of Istabl Antar uncovered a mass grave. The bodies ...

Maps have been a cornerstone of National Geographic since they were published in the first issue of the magazine, in October 1888. The year 1915 witnessed the founding of the Map Department ...

This story appears in the December 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Alexander Graham ... challenges than it did at our founding in 1888. Today we inhabit a planet with a burgeoning ...

This story appears in the April 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Imagine flying ... Brazil abolished slavery in 1888, the last nation in the hemisphere to do so. But the end of slavery ...

This story appears in the January 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. Out in the cold fjord ... nature of the central nervous system. In 1888 Nansen led the first traverse of Greenland ...