National Geographic
National Geographic (formerly the National Geographic Magazine and branded also as NAT GEO) is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society. It has been published continuously since its first issue in 1888, nine months after the Society itself was founded. It primarily contains articles about science, geography, history, and world culture. The magazine is known for its thick square-bound glossy format with a yellow rectangular border and its extensive use of dramatic photographs. Controlling interest in the magazine has been held by The Walt Disney Company since 2019. The magazine is published monthly, and additional map supplements are also included with subscriptions. It is available in a traditional printed edition and through an interactive online edition. As of 2015, the magazine was circulated worldwide in nearly 40 local-language editions and had a global circulation of approximately 6.5 million per month according to data published by The Washington Post (down from about 12 million in the late 1980s) or 6.7 million according to National Geographic. This includes a US circulation of 3.5 million.[5][6] (Wikipedia)
Dead puppies, potential human sacrifices and a painted dog penis bone buried in a ritual deposit in an ancient quarry shaft in southern England are revealing what fertility rituals may have looked like in the early decades of Roman conquest. “It was filled with an absolutely shocking number of bones,” says Ellen Green, a bioarchaeologist at the University of Reading. “You couldn’t move around in there without stepping on something.” Green describes the find in a recent issue of the Oxford Journal of Archaeology. The hole full of bones—the largest...