Whiskey stands as a testament to the artistry of distillation, a liquid symphony made with grain, water, and time. From the ...

But by 1960, aircraft and guided missiles had made the big gun redundant, so the period from 1890s to 1950s covering the two world wars is the most historically significant. The focus of this book is ...

throwing Japanese politics into its most uncertain period in years. The Liberal Democratic Party, which has governed Japan for all but four years since 1955, lost more than 50 seats in an election ...

Researchers in June 2022 excavate medieval pottery ... During this period, the rest of Asia was the willing and even eager recipient of a startlingly comprehensive mass transfer of Indian soft power, ...

By David Waldstein Masa Kawai wore his faded Yankees cap on Wednesday as he served customers at the Japanese doughnut shop he owns in Edgewater, N.J. It was two days before Game 1 of a World ...

The Old Norse sagas are narrative prose works written in a former North Germanic language spoken during the medieval period. They tell stories of historical figures and legendary heroes ...

University of Stavanger archaeologist and historian Roderick Dale, a specialist in Old Norse literature who wasn't involved in the new study, agreed that the analysis seemed to corroborate the ...

The Sverris saga, a quasi-fictional historical account from the end of the 12th century CE, recaps the reign of the medieval Norwegian king Sverre Sigurdsson. One of the best-known passages ...

“Sure enough, he’s living on a medieval citadel,” Frachetti tells Scientific American. This second site—Tugunbulak—featured similar mounds. “We’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, this place is ...

The authors say Tugunbulak was one of the largest cities in central Asia during the early-medieval period. LiDAR maps created highly accurate maps of Tugunbulak and TashbulakImage: SAIElab ...

What does a Japanese person recall? Doraemon, the friendly robot helper of an enormously popular eponymous anime series. So goes an anecdote making the rounds in Japanese tech circles. It suggests ...

“While the wider literature from the period tells us that medieval women were silent and passive, quiet and chaste, their [surviving creations] tell a different story,” writes Pragya ...