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Take a look at some of the protagonists of one of the most important years in the modern history.

Nat Geo's 6-part series "1989," debuts with a dramatic look at a year of revolution around the world. Soviet leader Mikhail...

We didn't know it then, but in 1989, the digital age had begun. It was the year the first modern GPS satellites roamed above...

July 1944. After a lackluster wolfpack operation, an American submarine commander penetrates the defenses of a Japanese convoy...

After an enemy bomb blast shatters an American submarine, the crew battles an out of control dive and a toxic fire in their...

Despite textbook set ups to sink Royal Navy ships, faulty torpedoes threaten a U-Boat commander’s mission during the German...

While a U.S. Hunter Killer Group stalks a German U-Boat, a destroyer rams the sub and the enemy crew uses the opportunity to...

Historic texts tell of a mighty Ancient Egyptian city in the Nile delta. Celebrated as a trade hub and visited by Greek gods...

Draining Hawaiʻi reveals Japan's secret weapons, from mini-subs to fighter planes, with the wreck of USS Arizona a reminder...

There is a beach in Costa Rica that challenges what we think we know about big cats. Americas largest cat, the jaguar, is...

The climate crisis is not only the greatest existential crisis we face: it is also causing a global health emergency.”

Take a look at these animals from the most popular zoos.

New technology reveals how Tutankhamun’s resting place remained hidden for so long and an amazing new discovery in a 4000...

Archaeologists investigate how the mighty river Nile transformed ancient Egypt into one of the greatest civilisations of the...

Archaeologists excavate among a field of unusual pyramids, to uncover the secrets of a forgotten dynasty of Pharaohs: The Sun...