Japan's oldest burial chamber found in Nara tomb

Japan's oldest burial chamber found in Nara tomb

KASHIHARA, Japan - A burial chamber (C) believed to be Japan's oldest has been excavated from a tomb in Nara Prefecture, western Japan, researchers announced March 27. Vertical wooden beams surrounding a coffin in the 80-meter-long Hokenoyama tomb in the city of Sakurai apparently date from the middle of the third century, said Takayasu Higuchi, head of the prefectural Archaeological Institute of Kashihara. The chamber is believed to have housed a 5-by-1-meter coffin surrounded by the beams and a number of round stones, Higuchi said.

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