Early BaekJae Dynasty Tomb in Seoul
Seoul has very long history.
It had been a Capital from more than 2000 years ago.
There are kings' tombs near my village.
The name of the village where are tombs is Seok Chon Dong. 石村洞 It means Stone Village.
It was estimated the stone tomb had been built in this area 3-4 century AD. Of course before the stone tomb, it was believed that ordinary graves had been made for long time ago.
I visited the tombs due to hot weather. At first I planned to walk along the Seoul Wall. It was too hot to walk along the wall. So I changed my plan to look around the early Baek Jae Dynasty Tombs. Bae Jae Dynasty came from Kogooryeo Dynasty. Two dynasty were actually brother kingdom. Kogooryeo dinasty was the orgin of Korea. The name of Korea came from Kogooryeo.
In acient times, there were three kingdom in Korean peninsular, Kogooryeo, BaekJae and Shilla. Among them Kogooryeo and BaekJae orginnated from one royal family.
BaekJae had built a kingdom near Seoul at first. But with several wars BaekJae was forced to withdraw from Han river area(seoul) to the Gong Joo and BooYeo(Keum river area in Choongcheong province)
The place where I visited was believed early BaekJae Dynasty's Capital. There are lots of other Archaeological remains in Seoul. Next time I will post about them.
Let's look around today's tombs.
The tombs are located in the center of the village, so tombs are surrounded by apartments and skyscrapers.
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The tomb area was open place to everyone. Let me post people and other things next day.
Let there be happiness and health,
And let all the forces are enough,
And that every day with love
You only brought joy.
We wish you happiness and good,
Friends are good and warm,
Happy days, blissful dreams,
Great hopes, drunken feasts,
Laugh, sing songs, love,
A big life to the bottom of a drink!
Fascinating history here! Thanks so much for explaining it and showing us these fascinating ancient tombs. It's quite incredible that something can survive as far back as 3 - 4 A.D. Amazing!
this is a very interesting and also sad post, @slowwalker.
I am touched by the amount of labour that went into constructing these tombs - they were all different types but the one thing they had in common was the care of the original people who respectfully interred the dead.
The collapsed tomb seemed an image of ruin--so sad, almost as sad as the tired tomb that had houses built on it until the 1980's--that seems to have been the era when the local government began the restoration of these graves.
Such a contrast in your photos between the modern apartment buildings and soaring sculpture and the solemn, ancient tombs.
I didn't know the name Korea originated from an ancient kingdom - Thank you for that information, @slowwalker.
As always, beautiful photos and a lovely post.
It's a fine tomb. It's nice that Korean city planners still leave space for these wonders. Some cultures have stopped caring about history, not Korea.
Thanks for sharing such a valuable post... :)
Nice to see seoul history never heard about this thanx for sharing
Wow, those awesome pictures. Keep up the great posts.
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I enjoy your historical posts for the very reason that they demonstrate a common human condition when it comes to burial. Stones to make the site visible and also inaccessible to wild animals. Somewhere close to the city but not in the center so the dead can have "peace" as well as for health reasons.
Every human culture understood this basic concept whether they build pyramids or hill tops for grave. They all elevated the ground in a different way, as a reminder where we will all end up one day.
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