The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of stability, the need for them faded, forcing these warriors to find a new way of ...

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A genuine Slutsk sash and a 500-year-old Neman dugout canoe… What else can you see in the exhibition of ancient Belarusian culture at the ...

Since the late 1980s, archaeologists have been working at the site of the ancient city of Zeugma in eastern Turkey -- founded ...

Never mind London – some of the finest selling exhibitions are now to be found in the most surprising rural settings ...

As gemstones found by a British landowner in colonial India head to Sotheby's, academics say it furthers "colonial legacies ...

Japan House London announces its forthcoming exhibition, Pictograms: Iconic Japanese Designs opening on Wednesday 30 July 2025. Pictograms are everywhere; on street signs and in text messages, on ...

Excavations in the ancient Greek city of Sicyon in the Peloponnese are bringing to light important clues about its history.

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Researchers looked at poetry dating as far back as the Tang dynasty to find that the Yangtze finless porpoise’s range has ...