Richie Mehta is the creative mind behind Poacher, a new eight-part series about crime-fighting conservationists who took on ...

On its way to India when it went down, and discovered only in 2008, researchers have scoured the ship’s remains to learn what they can about 16th century trade routes and the elephants from whom its ...

This story appears in the August 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The royalty of India—Hindu and Muslim—understood long ago that power was best wielded from the back of an elephant.

Villagers say they found large pots of “mahua,” a traditional Indian liquor, emptied and broken near the elephants Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

full of Indian memorabilia; brass tables, dress sabres, wall plaques, ivory picture frames, miniature elephants and this bell. When he died and the house was sold up everything except the bell ...