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Out of all the upgrades that the Power Rangers received to their costumes, this is the best one they ever had that no one ...
Set in the late Shogun era of Japan, 'Taboo' follows the drama that unfolds when a new bombshell enters the villa... where they train samurai.
Samurai Legend, available on Netflix and Hulu. This adaptation of the 1988 manga by Gosho Aoyama, known for the long-running series Detective Conan ( Case Closed in the US), reminded me that the aura ...
By Franz Lidz In 1970, the celebrated novelist Yukio Mishima committed seppuku, a gruesome form of ritual suicide that originated with Japan’s ancient samurai warrior class. After a failed coup ...
A team of Washington State University-led researchers has recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian blue, which was used in ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago. Reporting in ...
The New York tattoo artist Sumok Kim, who works at Chronic Ink in Brooklyn, has seen a surge in demand for Asian history themed tattoos, from ancient Buddhas to dragons and Samurai warriors.
Because the fossils were so old—dating to between 1.8 million and 2.2 million years ago—researchers could not recover ancient DNA from them. So, instead, they turned to the relatively new ...
Remarking on the novelty of finding so much gold jewelry from this period in Jerusalem, Efrat Bocher, an excavation manager from Bar-Ilan University and the Center for the Study of Ancient ...
(William Usaquen, Andrea Casas-Vargas via AP) NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient hunter-gatherers who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America ...
It is dated to what is known as the "Middle Preclassic" period from about 800 to 500 BC, and is believed to have been "one of the most ancient and important ceremonial centers" of the Mayan ...
Author and researcher Gary Wayne is no stranger to the mysteries of Genesis. In a recent discussion on Taylor Welch’s “The Deep End,” he unpacked the ancient flood story through a biblical lens, ...
His unexplored tomb at Nemrut Dağ may show us more about death and worship in ancient Turkey. Several colossal heads that once stood in the mausoleum of Antiochus I of Commagene now lie in front ...