I desired dragons with a profound desire,” fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien once said about his childhood imagination, ...

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A sunken ‘pyramid’ located near Taiwan has researchers rethinking everything they know about ancient civilizations.

Many myths have formed around Houdini over the years. One story was popularized by director and actor Orson Welles. In audience with the tsar in Russia, Welles recounted, Houdini made the bells of ...

Gold has always been a popular investment in India—but that hasn't stopped myths from spreading. From thinking gold is only useful in a crisis to believing it’s just for the rich, misconceptions often ...

The Japanese competitors stunned the spectators with spectacular performances. Big Air riders, Kokomo Murase and Ryoma Kimata from Japan, each captured gold medals in the massive competition.

For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled ... the lake. The ancient records don’t give a name, and Shinto is a form of animism that believes in countless gods that lie behind ...

Japanese hot springs—better known as onsens—are prized for their zen experience, with travelers coming from around the world to lounge in natural pools and bliss out. The country is home to ...

At the Brisbane Sake Festival, sake educator and promoter Simone Maynard hopes to set the record straight on some of the most persistent myths surrounding the drink for those outside of Japan.

NOBEOKA, Miyazaki -- One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi temple in this southwestern Japan city was purified ...