🏛️ Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group: Mounded Tombs of Ancient Japan

Archaeology & Antiquity Japan Asia

The Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group comprises 49 ancient burial mounds constructed during the Kofun period (3rd to 6th centuries AD) in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. These monumental tombs represent the richest material testimony to the social hierarchy, political structures, and funerary practices of ancient Japan. The group was inscribed as a UNESCO ...