Additionally, researchers found genetic confirmation that entire families had been sacrificed together as part of sunjang, ...

Ancient DNA in Korea reveals a shocking burial custom, sunjang, in which parents and children were sacrificed and buried ...

A genetic study suggests Silla-era elites in Korea may have repeatedly drawn human sacrifices from the same families across ...

Entire families were sacrificed in Korea about 1,500 years ago in rituals to honour royalty, according to a new analysis of ...

Beneath the hills of Gyeongsan, in southeastern South Korea, archaeologists have spent more than four decades excavating a ...

Studying ancient history means encountering some unsettling traditions. For me, that included learning about “sunjang,” a ...

DNA studies of 1,500-year-old skeletons have revealed that ancient Koreans lived in tightly knit family networks where ...

A 1,400-year-old crown found in a tomb in Gyeongju, South Korea is among recent archaeological discoveries. Photo from Korea Heritage Service The summaries below were drafted with the help of AI tools ...

Nearly 70 years ago, archaeologists discovered an ancient suit of armor beneath one of the island nation’s most prominent ...

About 1,500 years ago, in what is now South Korea, a gruesome practice known as ‘sunjang’ dictated that servants, retainers, ...