NGM DECEMBER 2025
PICTURES OF THE YEAR
 
Nat Geo’s photo editors highlight the most compelling photos taken by our photographers in the field from October 2024 through October 2025 in our annual Pictures of the Year issue. Other features in this issue include:
• Rethinking How the Egyptians Built the Pyramids: The engineering behind moving two million stone blocks has long puzzled observers. Now a 4,600-year-old diary and a hidden waterway may be the keys to unraveling one of history’s greatest 
mysteries.
• The Future of Your Memory: Experts on the frontiers of memory science reveal the reasons we remember and forget what we do, why it matters, and how we might unlock the brain’s full potential.
• Remembering Jane Goodall: The trailblazing primatologist changed our understanding of animal behavior and left behind a towering conservation legacy