The estimated average height of Japanese men reached 163 centimeters during the Kofun Period, which ran from the end of the third century to around the seventh century. But then they began to shrink.

Situado en una meseta que se alza en la llanura de Osaka, este sitio comprende 49 “kofun” o antiguos túmulos. Los “kofun” son de tamaños muy diferentes y pueden ser cuadrados o redondos, o bien ...

A research team, including Professor Naoto Tomioka of Okayama University of Science, has uncovered new genetic evidence challenging the long-standing "dual-structure model" of Japanese ancestry. By ...

Haniwa are terracotta clay figures that were made during the Kofun Period (3rd to 7th centuries), presumably as funerary objects. I visited the Tokyo National Museum where a special exhibition is ...

Archaeologists Unearth More Than 100,000 Ancient Coins, Carrying Traits of China’s First Unified Currency Archaeologists unearthed a collection of more than 100,000 ancient coins that were bundled up ...

The global popularity of blades forged in the western Japan city of Sakai is on the rise, with foreign tourists helping to ...