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Four newly translated Japanese texts describe how ritual samurai beheadings were supposed to take place during the Edo period and later.

The martial artifacts found at the temple complex were likely offerings that an ancient kingdom made to their chief god.

Being a Roman gladiator was a bloody business, but did all gladiators really fight to the death?

The newfound barracks may have been built partly because the Libyans were becoming a growing threat to ancient Egypt.

Viking Age skeletons in Norway were much more likely to bear signs of lethal violence than those in Denmark, possibly because society in Norway was less stratified and centralized.

Archaeologists in Kazakhstan have discovered 10 kurgans, or burial mounds, dating to the Middle Ages, and some have "mustaches."

Archaeologists have found the skeletal remains of four people — two children, a teenager and an adult — at a site in Peru that predates the Incas.

An archaeologist has identified the rare remains of a Roman prison in Corinth, Greece.

Archaeologists discovered a 2,000-year-old rock quarry in Jerusalem which may have provided the massive stone building blocks used in the Second Temple.

Tablets added to the British Museum's collection many decades ago have finally been deciphered.

The "Pyramid of the Moon" in Teotihuacan, an ancient city in Mexico, may align with the solstice sun, a team argues.

Grave goods found in 63 burials from ancient Egypt include gold foil figures, pottery and bronze coins.

Archaeologists discovered rock carvings featuring several pharaohs during an underwater expedition near Aswan, Egypt.

Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have now excavated eight ancient stone circles that likely served as homes to people more than 7,000 years ago.

Archaeologists in Venezuela have discovered 20 previously unknown rock art sites that are thousands of years old.

Researchers previously thought the calendar ring on the Antikythera mechanism tracked the ancient Egyptian calendar, but new research suggests it tracked the Greek lunar calendar instead.

Has a scholar located two Assyrian military camps mentioned in the Hebrew bible?

A manuscript written in the fourth or fifth century describes how Jesus brought clay birds to life as a child.

The ancient Egyptians buried their dead at Saqqara for thousands of years. Why was the necropolis so important to them?

Volunteers on an environmental clean-up in Kazakhstan uncovered rock art dating to the Bronze or Iron ages, but archaeologists say they already knew about the site.