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

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The Mozu Kofun Group is a group of kofun—megalithic tombs—in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Originally consisting of more than 100 tombs, fewer than 50% of the key-hole, round, and rectangular tombs remain.

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Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group: Mounded Tombs of Ancient Japan is a cultural World Heritage site in Japan, in Asia. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group: Mounded Tombs of Ancient Japan was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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