The squad saving deer from tourist trash in Japan's Nara As peckish deer chase delighted tourists in Japan's temple-dotted Nara Park, a quiet but dedicated team of litter-pickers patrols the stone ...

The Nakasendo road still exists in its entirety - as do dozens of the post towns it weaves between - and can form an epic ...

Inclusive of the Mie, Wakayama and Nara prefectures, Kii Peninsula is easily accessible via multiple train routes from Osaka ...

Focusing on an area where a large lake was once situated during the Pleistocene, archaeologists found a wealth of material ...

A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle ...

Many of Ireland’s backroads lead to ancient Megalithic structures that beckon one to imagine what life would have been like between 4600 and 600 BC when most stone circles and dolmens (portal ...

This unique degree programme offers training in an unparalleled range of ancient languages and their associated history, culture and textual traditions. Students study Hebrew and either Greek or Latin ...

The ancient populations expanding out of Africa subsequently interbred somewhere in southeast Asia with another group of archaic hominins, the mysterious Denisovans, adding a layer of Denisovan ...

FOR some years past it has been felt by students of anthropology that the limits of their science were being pushed so far in every direction by various enthusiastic workers in almost every ...

Today, more than a dozen stalls specialising in stamps still line the alley, but the know-how involved in this ancient ... spread to Japan, and later to Korea. The use of stone seals remains ...

Archaeologists also uncovered a trio of stone containers used for collecting taxes near the home’s entrance, the university said. Ancient taxpayers would leave goods or other gifts in the ...

But the citrus genus has a surprising history, popping up everywhere from ancient Rome and the Renaissance to naval exploration and Casanova's famed romantic trysts. The history of citrus dates ...