Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, Bolivia, Egypt, Hawaii, Easter Island and other exotic places. With special ...

Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, Bolivia, Egypt, Hawaii, Easter Island and other exotic places. With special ...

An Ancient Roman erotic fresco painting has just been discovered by archeologists at a dig site in Pompeii. The stunning work ...

A museum packed with samurai weapons and armor stands near the iconic Kintaikyo Bridge in Iwakuni, a short drive from the ...

After more than three decades away, the ancient sport of sumo made a triumphant return to London’s Royal Albert Hall, filling the sold-out venue with the sound of stomps, shouts and centuries of ...

Sumo wrestlers posed outside London’s Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday, with the sounds of city traffic providing the backdrop ahead of the opening bouts of a five-day tournament. The event marks the ...

A band of unusually hard rock, formed from magma about 15 million years ago, near the epicenter of the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake likely worsened the disaster as internal faults collapsed ...

New research from Japan's iron-rich hot springs shows how early microbes may have harnessed iron and oxygen during the Great Oxygenation Event. Some 2.3 billion years ago, the Earth would have been ...

From tranquil temples to the bright lights of Tokyo, look at images that capture the “Land of the Rising Sun” Smithsonian Photo Contest Galleries Photographs selected by Text by Tracy Scott Forson ...

Fossils found in a riverbed in Japan were revealed as a large, ancient ancestor of right whales. Tanaka, et al (2025) Palaeontologia Electronica The largest animal thought to ever live is swimming ...

TikTok is lighting up with videos about Shinrin-yoku, known as “forest bathing.” For generations, travelers have left home not just to see faraway cities and load up on new experiences, but also to ...

Noh was once the entertainment of medieval warriors. Today, remote Sado Islanders embrace one of the world’s oldest surviving types of drama. Shinobu Kamiyama, center, playing the tormented ghost of a ...