The joint Egyptian-American mission excavating the necropolis found coffins for five women, two men and three children.

Mirrors and magic Rather than being made of glass, most ancient Maya mirrors were dark pieces of polished iron ore, glued ...

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 ...

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 ...