Stone-coffin grave from Yayoi period found in Nagasaki Pref.

Stone-coffin grave from Yayoi period found in Nagasaki Pref.

NAGASAKI, Japan - The Nagasaki prefectural board of education shows on Feb. 4, 2014 a stone-coffin grave from around the second century during the latter Yayoi period that was found in Omura, Nagasaki Prefecture. The box-shaped coffin, discovered at the Takematsu ruins in the southwestern Japan city, has traces of being colored with red pigment.

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