NARA--Researchers have unearthed a shield-shaped bronze mirror and massive iron sword in an ancient kofun burial mound here, unprecedented discoveries of their kind in Japan. The unusually ...

An ancient bronze griffin head, stolen nearly a century ago, has been returned to the Archaeological Museum of Olympia ...

coins and a mirror. The team believes the relics could reveal the secrets of ancient Egyptians dating back to the Bronze Age, specifically about the city's foreign trade efforts. A total of 38 ...

The Sakurai Chausuyama burial mound, which some assume to be a royal tomb from an early period of the ancient Yamato State, has yielded a total of 385 bronze mirror fragments during excavations ...

The ancient Greeks often decorated their bronze cauldrons, used to honor the gods, with the head of a griffin, whose visage is that of an eagle but whose body is that of a lion. On its website ...

During an extensive excavation covering 60,000 square meters, the team unearthed an ancient monument featuring ... which thrived during the European Bronze Age around 2800 BC.