World Cultures

For Bangladesh, which was once called East Pakistan, 2021 marks the 50th Anniversary of its brutal War of Independence from West Pakistan, a tragedy that occurred just a year after the would-be country was also stunned by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, perhaps the deadliest natural disasters in history.

Hindu pilgrims on a four-day Himalayan trek across cross two 16,000 - foot passes to a massive cave where the god Shiva is believed to have imparted the secret of immortality to his consort, the mountain goddess Parvati

A National Geographic archaeology team uncovers an ancient Incan townsite and ingenious network of irrigation canals atop a mountain in Peru’s Cordillera Vilcabamba.