It is the biggest imperial mausoleum in ancient China ... sharp despite a 2,000 year burial. Swords are included, reminders of the poem Emperor Qinshihuang Drinks Himself Drunk by the Tang ...

Japanese Emperor Naruhito formally proclaimed his ... dressed in burnt-orange robes and a black headdress, with an ancient sword and a boxed jewel, two of the so-called Three Sacred Treasures ...

KASHIHARA, Nara Prefecture--An iron sword that at more than 2 meters long ranks as the largest intact ancient blade ever discovered in Japan is heavily oxidized after being buried in soil for ...

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 ...