Some 30 centimeters down, they hit what looked like the end of a sword ... shed light on ancient farming and topography. And in 2015, a trove of 2,000 mysterious looking gold spirals also from ...

(Look at those gold-inlaid ideographs ... an intricate variant of ancient Chinese writing. After months of analysis, experts concluded the inscription reads "King of Yue made this sword for ...

KASHIHARA, Nara Prefecture--An iron sword that at more than 2 meters long ranks as the largest intact ancient blade ever discovered in Japan is heavily oxidized after being buried in soil for ...