NARA--Some of the finest swords of Japan’s feudal age are now on show at the Kasuga Taisha shrine here. Many of them are national treasures. What sets the blades apart is that they were ...

Iron Sword Dubbed ... A.D. Researchers found fantasy turning to reality when they located an iron sword stuck upright in Spain. The discovery happened in 1994 at the north of the ancient Roman ...

Genetic Legacy of Jomon Hunter-Gatherers Linked to Increased BMI in Modern Japanese ... extracted and analyzed DNA from ancient cheese samples found alongside the Tarim Basin mummies in China ...

Image of the sword from Lloseta and detail of the burrs on the edge of the blade. Credit: Archaeology Museum of Catalonia A recent study published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences ...

A 2,200-year-old ceramic drinking vessel has confirmed what archaeologists have long suspected: some ancient Egyptians were tripping on hallucinogens. For the first time, scientists have discovered ...

They also found traces of African spider flower, which some ancient societies believed could help a woman’s fertility and labor. But African spider flower and Syrian rue can also cause abortions.

Himiko is the name of a queen in early third-century Japan, according to ancient Chinese history texts ... then a record, found at Tomb No. 1 of the Hirabaru archaeological site in Itoshima ...