Two swords once carried by samurai have been found during excavations in Ichijodani, one of medieval Japan’s largest cities. On the outskirts of Fukui, a city of a quarter of a million people in ...

ORENBURG, RUSSIA—According to the Greek Reporter, the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) announced the discovery of a remarkable and unparalleled sacrificial complex in the Orenburg region of the ...

BORKOWO, POLAND—A cemetery dated to the tenth century A.D. was discovered during an investigation conducted ahead of the construction of a gas pipeline in northwestern Poland, according to a Science ...

MUNICH, GERMANY— La Brújula Verde reports that over the past three years, German archaeologists have made a number of exciting discoveries at the oppidum of Manching that have provided new insight ...

According to an IFL Science report, a medieval shipwreck has been discovered in the strait between Denmark and Sweden by a ...

According to a statement released by the Autonomous University of Barcelona, people living some 5,000 years ago in the ...

Tens of thousands of Vikings flowed into northern England beginning in the late 9th century, first as an invading army and then as a wave of migrants. A 10th-century illustration depicts a Viking ...

Live Science reports that Catalina Morales and Francisco Garrido of Chile’s National Museum of Natural History examined the 1,100-year-old remains of a man unearthed in the Atacama Desert. At the time ...

How gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses The sun illuminated the stadium in Ephesus, a wealthy harbor city in western Anatolia, on a day of eagerly anticipated gladiatorial ...

An aerial view of Peru’s Moche Valley shows Chan Chan, a massive city constructed beginning in the early eleventh century A.D. by the rulers of the Kingdom of Chimor, leaders of a people known as the ...

According to a report in The Guardian, more than 800 broken whetstones have been found in northern England on the banks of ...

A tree stump from an ancient submerged forest that is at least 6,000 years old protrudes from a beach at low tide at Pett Level in Sussex, England. (M.J. Thomas) (Ken Feisel) Experts from the British ...