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Ep. 026: Kofuns, the "Pyramids" of Japan

Royal burial mounds in the Land of the Rising Sun

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James Baquet
Mar 25, 2020
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Everyone knows about the pyramids of Egypt, burial monuments for the pharaohs. But burial mounds of one sort or another are found the world over. In Japan, they're called kofun, meaning simply "ancient tombs," and we'll visit a few on this episode of--

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