After nine years of excavations, Russian archaeologists say they have found the capital of the Khazar kingdom, just north of the Caspian Sea. The Khazars adopted Judaism as a state religion between the eighth and tenth centuries, and built a city of huts surrounded by a triangular fortress made of bricks. A lead seal bearing […]

A tomb made out of more than 2,000 blue and white stacked porcelain bowls stuck together with rice and cement was discovered just beneath a road in Chongqing, China. Similar tombs have been found in Fujian Province, prompting archaeologists to speculate that the tomb had been built by migrant workers.  Four 1,600-year-old bronze mirrors were […]