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Murals at ancient tomb in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo shows a mural painting that seems to depict the face of a warrior at a newly-unearthed Koguryo mural tomb dating back to around the fifth century. Kyodo News reported on Aug. 14, 2010 that it sent a team of journalists and scholars to Pyongyang and conducted joint research on the Tongsan-dong mural tomb in the capital's Raknang district with the Archaeological Institute of North Korea's Academy of Social Sciences.

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Murals at ancient tomb in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo shows a mural painting that seems to depict a procession at a newly-unearthed Koguryo mural tomb dating back to around the fifth century. Kyodo News reported on Aug. 14, 2010 that it sent a team of journalists and scholars to Pyongyang and conducted joint research on the Tongsan-dong mural tomb in the capital's Raknang district with the Archaeological Institute of North Korea's Academy of Social Sciences.

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Ancient tomb in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photos show the newly-unearthed Tongsan-dong mural tomb, a Koguryo relic dating back to around the fifth century. Kyodo News reported on Aug. 14, 2010 that it sent a team of journalists and scholars to Pyongyang and conducted joint research on the tomb in the capital's Raknang district with the Archaeological Institute of North Korea's Academy of Social Sciences.

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Ancient tomb in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo shows a celadon candleholder featuring a kind of animal found in the newly-unearthed Tongsan-dong mural tomb, a Koguryo relic dating back to around the fifth century. Kyodo News reported on Aug. 14, 2010 that it sent a team of journalists and scholars to Pyongyang and conducted joint research on the tomb in the capital's Raknang district with the Archaeological Institute of North Korea's Academy of Social Sciences.

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Ancient tomb in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photos show the newly-unearthed Tongsan-dong mural tomb, a Koguryo relic dating back to around the fifth century. Kyodo News reported on Aug. 14, 2010 that it sent a team of journalists and scholars to Pyongyang and conducted joint research on the tomb in the capital's Raknang district with the Archaeological Institute of North Korea's Academy of Social Sciences.

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Murals at ancient tomb in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Combination photo shows a mural painting (R) that seems to depict the face of a warrior at a newly-unearthed Koguryo mural tomb dating back to around the fifth century and an infrared version (L). Kyodo News reported on Aug. 14, 2010 that it sent a team of journalists and scholars to Pyongyang and conducted joint research on the Tongsan-dong mural tomb in the capital's Raknang district with the Archaeological Institute of North Korea's Academy of Social Sciences.

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Murals at ancient tomb in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Combination photo shows a mural painting (top) that seems to depict a procession at a newly-unearthed Koguryo mural tomb dating back to around the fifth century and an infrared version (bottom). Kyodo News reported on Aug. 14, 2010 that it sent a team of journalists and scholars to Pyongyang and conducted joint research on the Tongsan-dong mural tomb in the capital's Raknang district with the Archaeological Institute of North Korea's Academy of Social Sciences.

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East Japan city to mark 1,300 yrs of ties with ancient Korea

SAITAMA, Japan, Dec. 1 Kyodo - Fumiyasu Koma, chief priest of Koma Shrine in Hidaka, Saitama Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, poses for a photo on Nov. 19, 2015. Hidaka city is hosting a series of events for the 1,300th anniversary, to be marked in 2016, of the formation of the former Koma township where descendants of Koguryo, one of the ancient Three Kingdoms of Korea, moved and settled before and after the fall of the monarchy.

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Koguryo murals reproduced

TOKYO, Japan - The Tokyo University of the Arts shows to reporters a reproduced life-size stone chamber of an ancient Koguryo tomb with colorful murals in Tokyo on Feb. 27, 2012. The Gangseo tomb, believed to be the tomb of a Koguryo dynasty king from the late sixth to early seventh century, is located in the southwestern part of North Korea.

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Koguryo murals reproduced

TOKYO, Japan - The Tokyo University of the Arts shows to reporters a reproduced life-size stone chamber of an ancient Koguryo tomb with colorful murals in Tokyo on Feb. 27, 2012. The Gangseo tomb, believed to be the tomb of a Koguryo dynasty king from the late sixth to early seventh century, is located in the southwestern part of North Korea. On the left is Masaaki Miyasako, a professor at the university.

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Murals of Okto-ri tomb in Nampho, N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in October 2011 shows murals on stone chamber walls -- men and women clad in ethnic costumes on the east wall and a design consisting of Chinese characters, pronounced ''tae (dae)'' and ''wang'' in Korean on the north wall -- at the Okto-ri tomb in Nampho, North Korea. The tomb dating back to the late fourth century to the early fifth century during the Koguryo dynasty was excavated in 2010 and disclosed to the foreign media for the first time in October 2011.

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Murals of Okto-ri tomb in Nampho, N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in October 2011 shows murals on a stone chamber's east wall which depict men and women in ethnic costumes, some of them dancing, at the Okto-ri tomb in Nampho, North Korea. The tomb dating back to the late fourth century to the early fifth century during the Koguryo dynasty was excavated in 2010 and disclosed to the foreign media for the first time in October 2011.

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Okto-ri tomb in Nampho, N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - A man walks into the Okto-ri tomb in Nampho, North Korea, which was disclosed to the foreign media for the first time in October 2011. The tomb dating back to the late fourth century to the early fifth century during the Koguryo dynasty was excavated in 2010.

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Murals of Okto-ri tomb in Nampho, N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Image captured by ultraviolet photography shows the face of a maid painted on a stone chamber wall in the Okto-ri tomb, Nampho, North Korea, in October 2011. The maid's lips are painted in red. The tomb dating back to the late fourth century to the early fifth century during the Koguryo dynasty was disclosed to the foreign media for the first time in October 2011.

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Okto-ri tomb in Nampho, N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in October 2011 shows the surroundings of the Okto-ri tomb (on a hill in L) in Nampho, North Korea. The person who was buried in the tomb dating back to the late fourth century to the early fifth century during the Koguryo dynasty is believed to be a local leader and lord of a castle on a mountain (L back).

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Murals of Okto-ri tomb in Nampho, N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in October 2011 shows murals on a stone chamber wall in the Okto-ri tomb, dating back to the late fourth century to the early fifth century during the Koguryo dynasty, in Nampho, North Korea. The paintings depict a beam (edged with red lines), flames above the beam and a foot of a black tortoise, one of ''Four Guardian Deities,'' above the flames.

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Murals of Okto-ri tomb in Nampho, N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in October 2011 shows murals on a stone chamber wall in the Okto-ri tomb, dating back to the late fourth century to the early fifth century during the Koguryo dynasty, in Nampho, North Korea. An image of the buried couple believed to have been painted there was almost unrecognizable. A beam painted in yellow appears to divide the real world (below) and an imaginary world (above).

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Murals of Okto-ri tomb in Nampho, N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in October 2011 shows maids painted on a stone wall chamber of the Okto-ri tomb, dating back to the late fourth century to the early fifth century during the Koguryo dynasty, in Nampho, North Korea. A maid with higher status is depicted larger and those with lower status were painted smaller.

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Excavation of Koguryo tomb in Pyongyang

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Oct. 11, 2011, shows a Chinese character (C) on a wall of a stone chamber in the Kosan-dong No. 1 tomb dating back to the early sixth century, one of the Koguryo tombs in Pyongyang, North Korea.

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Excavation of Koguryo tomb in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo taken on Oct. 11, 2011, shows a black tortoise, one of the four guardian deities and the guardian of the north, painted on a stone chamber wall at the Kosan-dong No. 1 tomb, one of the Koguryo tombs in Pyongyang, North Korea, dating back to the early sixth century. The tomb was recently excavated by a team of Japanese and North Korean researchers after being first unearthed in 1936.

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Excavation of Koguryo tomb in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo taken Oct. 10, 2011, shows the Kosan-dong No. 1 tomb, one of the Koguryo tombs, in Pyongyang, North Korea, dating back to the early sixth century during the Koguryo dynasty, which was recently excavated by a team of Japanese and North Korean researchers after being first unearthed in 1936. North Korea may file an application with the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization for the No. 1 and two other tombs to be recognized as World Heritage sites.

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Excavation of Koguryo tomb in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Son Su Ho (R), director of North Korea's Archaeological Institute, and Masahiro Saotome, a Japanese archaeologist and professor at the University of Tokyo, on Oct. 8, 2011, probe the Kosan-dong No. 1 tomb, one of the Koguryo tombs in Pyongyang, North Korea, dating back to the early sixth century. The tomb was recently excavated by a team of Japanese and North Korean researchers after being first unearthed in 1936.

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Excavation of Koguryo tomb in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Infrared photo dated Oct. 9, 2011, shows a wall of a stone chamber at the Kosan-dong No. 1 tomb, one of the Koguryo tombs in Pyongyang, North Korea. The tomb, dating back to the early sixth century during the Koguryo dynasty, was recently excavated by a team of Japanese and North Korean researchers after being first unearthed in 1936.

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Excavation of Koguryo tomb in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo taken Oct. 9, 2011, shows a pair of black tortoises, one of the four guardian deities and the guardian of the north, painted on a stone chamber wall at the Kosan-dong No. 1 tomb, one of the Koguryo tombs in Pyongyang, North Korea. The tomb, dating back to the early sixth century during the Koguryo dynasty, was recently excavated by a team of Japanese and North Korean researchers after being first unearthed in 1936.

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Photo display of Korean murals opens in Pyongyang Thursday

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Visitors attend an exhibition of photographs of ancient murals from the Koguryo tomb complex outside Pyongyang at the Korean Central History Museum in Pyongyang on the opening day Oct. 11. The exhibition, co-sponsored by Kyodo News and South Korea's Yonhap News Agency, will run until Nov. 10.

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Photo display of Korean murals opens in Pyongyang Thursday

PYONGYANG, North Korea - A gigantic poster at the Korean Central History Museum in Pyongyang announces an exhibit of photographs of ancient murals from the Koguryo tomb complex outside Pyongyang. The exhibit, co-sponsored by Kyodo News and South Korea's Yonhap News Agency, opens Oct. 11 and will run until Nov. 10.

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Wall paintings at Complex of Koguryo Tombs

Photo taken on Nov. 5, 2004, at Tokhung-ri Tomb, part of the World Heritage-listed Complex of Koguryo Tombs in Nampo in South Pyongan Province, North Korea, shows a mural representing the Milky Way painted on the south-side ceiling of the tomb's front chamber. (Picture No. 20, Page 26 of Wall Paintings at Complex of Koguryo Tombs) (Kyodo)

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Wall paintings at Complex of Koguryo Tombs

Photo taken on Nov. 5, 2004, at Tokhung-ri Tomb, part the World Heritage-listed Complex of Koguryo Tombs in Nampo in South Pyongan Province, North Korea, shows a mural painted on the western side of the north wall of the tomb's front chamber representing the person for whom the tomb was constructed. (Picture No.15, Page 23 of Wall Paintings at Complex of Koguryo Tombs) (Kyodo)

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East Japan city to mark 1,300 yrs of ties with ancient Korea

Photo taken on Nov. 20, 2015, shows Shoden-in, a temple where the grave of Jakko ancient Korean royalty is laid, in Hidaka, Saitama Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo. The city is hosting a series of events for the 1,300th anniversary, to be marked in 2016, of the formation of the former Koma township where descendants of Koguryo, one of the ancient Three Kingdoms of Korea, moved and settled before and after the fall of the monarchy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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N. Korea gives Kyodo News exclusive tour of World Heritage site

TOKYO, Japan - North Korea recently allowed Kyodo News exclusive access to a World Heritage site in a Pyongyang suburb, the first time that the tomb and mural complex from ancient Koguryo Dynasty (from the end of the first century B.C. to A.D. 668) has been shown to foreign news media. Photo shows a tomb with two stone pillars in Nampo. (Kyodo)

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Photo display of Korean murals opens in Pyongyang Thursday

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Visitors attend an exhibition of photographs of ancient murals from the Koguryo tomb complex outside Pyongyang at the Korean Central History Museum in Pyongyang on the opening day Oct. 11. The exhibition, co-sponsored by Kyodo News and South Korea's Yonhap News Agency, will run until Nov. 10. (Kyodo)

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Photo display of Korean murals opens in Pyongyang Thursday

PYONGYANG, North Korea - A gigantic poster at the Korean Central History Museum in Pyongyang announces an exhibit of photographs of ancient murals from the Koguryo tomb complex outside Pyongyang. The exhibit, co-sponsored by Kyodo News and South Korea's Yonhap News Agency, opens Oct. 11 and will run until Nov. 10. (Kyodo)

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Murals at ancient tomb in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Combination photo shows a mural painting (top) that seems to depict a procession at a newly-unearthed Koguryo mural tomb dating back to around the fifth century and an infrared version (bottom). Kyodo News reported on Aug. 14, 2010 that it sent a team of journalists and scholars to Pyongyang and conducted joint research on the Tongsan-dong mural tomb in the capital's Raknang district with the Archaeological Institute of North Korea's Academy of Social Sciences. (Kyodo)

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Murals at ancient tomb in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo shows a mural painting that seems to depict the face of a warrior at a newly-unearthed Koguryo mural tomb dating back to around the fifth century. Kyodo News reported on Aug. 14, 2010 that it sent a team of journalists and scholars to Pyongyang and conducted joint research on the Tongsan-dong mural tomb in the capital's Raknang district with the Archaeological Institute of North Korea's Academy of Social Sciences. (Kyodo)

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Murals at ancient tomb in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Combination photo shows a mural painting (R) that seems to depict the face of a warrior at a newly-unearthed Koguryo mural tomb dating back to around the fifth century and an infrared version (L). Kyodo News reported on Aug. 14, 2010 that it sent a team of journalists and scholars to Pyongyang and conducted joint research on the Tongsan-dong mural tomb in the capital's Raknang district with the Archaeological Institute of North Korea's Academy of Social Sciences. (Kyodo)

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Ancient tomb in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photos show the newly-unearthed Tongsan-dong mural tomb, a Koguryo relic dating back to around the fifth century. Kyodo News reported on Aug. 14, 2010 that it sent a team of journalists and scholars to Pyongyang and conducted joint research on the tomb in the capital's Raknang district with the Archaeological Institute of North Korea's Academy of Social Sciences. (Kyodo)

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Ancient tomb in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo shows a celadon candleholder featuring a kind of animal found in the newly-unearthed Tongsan-dong mural tomb, a Koguryo relic dating back to around the fifth century. Kyodo News reported on Aug. 14, 2010 that it sent a team of journalists and scholars to Pyongyang and conducted joint research on the tomb in the capital's Raknang district with the Archaeological Institute of North Korea's Academy of Social Sciences. (Kyodo)

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Ancient tomb in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photos show the newly-unearthed Tongsan-dong mural tomb, a Koguryo relic dating back to around the fifth century. Kyodo News reported on Aug. 14, 2010 that it sent a team of journalists and scholars to Pyongyang and conducted joint research on the tomb in the capital's Raknang district with the Archaeological Institute of North Korea's Academy of Social Sciences. (Kyodo)

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Murals at ancient tomb in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo shows a mural painting that seems to depict a procession at a newly-unearthed Koguryo mural tomb dating back to around the fifth century. Kyodo News reported on Aug. 14, 2010 that it sent a team of journalists and scholars to Pyongyang and conducted joint research on the Tongsan-dong mural tomb in the capital's Raknang district with the Archaeological Institute of North Korea's Academy of Social Sciences. (Kyodo)

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Koguryo murals reproduced

TOKYO, Japan - The Tokyo University of the Arts shows to reporters a reproduced life-size stone chamber of an ancient Koguryo tomb with colorful murals in Tokyo on Feb. 27, 2012. The Gangseo tomb, believed to be the tomb of a Koguryo dynasty king from the late sixth to early seventh century, is located in the southwestern part of North Korea. (Kyodo)

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Koguryo murals reproduced

TOKYO, Japan - The Tokyo University of the Arts shows to reporters a reproduced life-size stone chamber of an ancient Koguryo tomb with colorful murals in Tokyo on Feb. 27, 2012. The Gangseo tomb, believed to be the tomb of a Koguryo dynasty king from the late sixth to early seventh century, is located in the southwestern part of North Korea. On the left is Masaaki Miyasako, a professor at the university. (Kyodo)

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Murals of Okto-ri tomb in Nampho, N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in October 2011 shows murals on a stone chamber wall in the Okto-ri tomb, dating back to the late fourth century to the early fifth century during the Koguryo dynasty, in Nampho, North Korea. The paintings depict a beam (edged with red lines), flames above the beam and a foot of a black tortoise, one of ''Four Guardian Deities,'' above the flames. (Kyodo)

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Murals of Okto-ri tomb in Nampho, N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in October 2011 shows murals on a stone chamber's east wall which depict men and women in ethnic costumes, some of them dancing, at the Okto-ri tomb in Nampho, North Korea. The tomb dating back to the late fourth century to the early fifth century during the Koguryo dynasty was excavated in 2010 and disclosed to the foreign media for the first time in October 2011. (Kyodo)

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Murals of Okto-ri tomb in Nampho, N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in October 2011 shows maids painted on a stone wall chamber of the Okto-ri tomb, dating back to the late fourth century to the early fifth century during the Koguryo dynasty, in Nampho, North Korea. A maid with higher status is depicted larger and those with lower status were painted smaller. (Kyodo)

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Murals of Okto-ri tomb in Nampho, N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in October 2011 shows murals on a stone chamber wall in the Okto-ri tomb, dating back to the late fourth century to the early fifth century during the Koguryo dynasty, in Nampho, North Korea. An image of the buried couple believed to have been painted there was almost unrecognizable. A beam painted in yellow appears to divide the real world (below) and an imaginary world (above). (Kyodo)

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Murals of Okto-ri tomb in Nampho, N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Image captured by ultraviolet photography shows the face of a maid painted on a stone chamber wall in the Okto-ri tomb, Nampho, North Korea, in October 2011. The maid's lips are painted in red. The tomb dating back to the late fourth century to the early fifth century during the Koguryo dynasty was disclosed to the foreign media for the first time in October 2011. (Kyodo)

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Okto-ri tomb in Nampho, N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in October 2011 shows the surroundings of the Okto-ri tomb (on a hill in L) in Nampho, North Korea. The person who was buried in the tomb dating back to the late fourth century to the early fifth century during the Koguryo dynasty is believed to be a local leader and lord of a castle on a mountain (L back). (Kyodo)

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Okto-ri tomb in Nampho, N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - A man walks into the Okto-ri tomb in Nampho, North Korea, which was disclosed to the foreign media for the first time in October 2011. The tomb dating back to the late fourth century to the early fifth century during the Koguryo dynasty was excavated in 2010. (Kyodo)

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Murals of Okto-ri tomb in Nampho, N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in October 2011 shows murals on stone chamber walls -- men and women clad in ethnic costumes on the east wall and a design consisting of Chinese characters, pronounced ''tae (dae)'' and ''wang'' in Korean on the north wall -- at the Okto-ri tomb in Nampho, North Korea. The tomb dating back to the late fourth century to the early fifth century during the Koguryo dynasty was excavated in 2010 and disclosed to the foreign media for the first time in October 2011. (Kyodo)

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Excavation of Koguryo tomb in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo taken Oct. 9, 2011, shows a pair of black tortoises, one of the four guardian deities and the guardian of the north, painted on a stone chamber wall at the Kosan-dong No. 1 tomb, one of the Koguryo tombs in Pyongyang, North Korea. The tomb, dating back to the early sixth century during the Koguryo dynasty, was recently excavated by a team of Japanese and North Korean researchers after being first unearthed in 1936. (Kyodo)