Royal train to end 156 years of service as King Charles III seeks to economize US government takes down major North Korean ...

When Google Earth added historical maps of Japan to its online collection last year, the search giant didn’t expect a backlash. The finely detailed woodblock prints have been around for ...

Revered for guiding, the three-legged crow god surely had my back. In rural mountainous Japan, I hoofed up the steep Kumano Kodo trail, retracing ancient footsteps of emperors, shoguns, and nobles ...

Submerged stone structures lying just below the waters off Yonaguni Jima are actually the ruins of a Japanese Atlantis—an ancient city sunk by an earthquake about 2,000 years ago.

A marble map of ancient Rome, that hasn't been put on public view for almost 100 years, is getting its very own museum within sight of the Colosseum.

NARA -- An original method to locate ancient burial mounds by "exploring" 3D terrain maps using artificial intelligence (AI) has led to the identification of 34 probable ancient burial mounds ...

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and migrated offshore.

(CNN) — Modified skulls found in an ancient burial site in Japan were deliberately reshaped in both men and women as an expression of collective identity. The practice may also have helped the ...

It is the earliest record of the language, customs, mythology, and history of ancient Japan, and soon after the date of its compilation, as Mr. Chamberlain points out, most of the salient features ...

These ancient sites shed light on a critical period in the cultural and political development of Japan, when Nara served as the capital from 710-784, according to UNESCO.

Thanks to our instructions from Oku Japan —the travel company that helped plan our self-guided journey along a portion of the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage route—Diana and I already knew what to do.