Tomb of King Tongmyong, North Korea
Mausoleum for King Tongmyong, the founder of the ancient Koryo kingdom. It is located near Pyongyang.
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King Tongmyong's tomb in Pyongyang
The tomb, renovated in 1990, belongs to the king and founder of Puyo Kingdom of Korea.
Study Results of Koguryo Group Tombs Discovered in Pyongyang
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КНДР. Гробница короля Тонмёна.
КНДР. Гробница короля Тонмёна.
[DPRK History] Ancient Tombs Unearthed
Archaeologists of the DPRK Academy of Social Sciences have recently unearthed a large group of tombs dating back to Koguryo Kingdom (B.C. 277-A.D. 668).
In this regard, Dr. Cha Man Dal, head of an excavating party under the Archaeological Institute of the academy, told KCNA:
The group tombs are located on a hill, about 2 kilometers northeast of Chondok-ri seat, Pongsan County of North Hwanghae Province.
There are nearly 30 tombs in four rows in an area of 185 square meters with individual ones around it, which shows the area was a big burial site with hundreds tombs.
Most of tombs are 10 meters in diameter and 2 meters in height and the biggest one is 17 meters in diameter and 2.4 meters in height. The tombs are arranged at intervals of 10-20 meters and can be divided into the earthen one with a stone chamber and the other with two stone chambers, all of them with arch-style or inclined-plane ceilings before getting collapsed.
Unearthed from the tombs were human and horse bones, bronze spoons and decorations, silver-clad iron nails, iron handles of coffin, grey earthenware and other remains.
The newly-unearthed tombs and remains will serve as material evidence to give fresh understanding of advanced cultural development of Koguryo, a powerful state that existed in the East for a thousand years, and precious treasures showing the good qualities of the Korean nation.
Усыпальница короля Тонмён, КНДР (동명왕릉, Tomb of King Tongmyong, North Korea)
[DPRK Attraction] Romanian Embassy Officials Visit Mausoleum of King Tongmyong
George Amihaesei Nicolescu, charge d'affaires ad interim of the Romanian embassy, and its officials visited the Mausoleum of King Tongmyong on Wednesday.
Tomb of king Tongmyong
One of the tombs is the royal tomb of Tongmyŏng (58–19 BC), the founder of the ancient Goguryeo kingdom, northernmost of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. In total, there are 63 individual tombs of the period. The tomb has achieved World Heritage status as part of the Complex of Goguryeo Tombs inscribed by UNESCO in 2004 under Criteria. Covering an area of 233 hectares (580 acres) with a buffer zone of 1,701 hectares (4,200 acres). A unique feature of this and the other extant tombs in the area are its wall paintings depicting lotuses blossoming of that period indicative of Buddhism practiced in Korea (277 BC to 668 AD)
Tomb Of King Kongmin And His Queen Near Kaesong North Korea
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Ancient Relics / KBS뉴스(News)
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Ancient relics that have been discovered over the past 10 years in North Korea on the former sites of Goguryeo and Balhae kingdoms were disclosed to the public in Incheon on January 17. More joint investigations will be conducted in the future to uncover relics in Hwanghae-do Province and Kaesong.
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This tomb mural dating back to the late 4th century was found in Nampo, North Korea. The mural shows the person buried in the tomb and Chinese characters meaning king and great. proving the tomb belongs to a member of the royal family. This mural discovered in Hwanghae-do Province features unusual whirlpool-like patterns reminiscent of fingerprints.
[Soundbite] Prof. Chung Kyung-il(Yanbian University) : It's the first tomb found in Cheondeok-ri that has engraved whirlpool patterns painted with black ink.
The murals were found in North Korea by historians from China's Yanbian University over the past ten years. So far, researchers from the institute have discovered 130 ancient tombs from the Goguryeo era. At a forum organized by Yanbian University, the government of Incheon City and the Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, scholars from South Korea also discussed the preservation and excavation of historic relics in North Korea. This August, the researchers plan to share the results of their studies into the royal tombs of Goryeo and Joseon eras as well.
[Soundbite] Kim Rak-ki(Research Center for Incheon History & Culture) : We will compare Joseon and Goryeo tombs in Kaesong with those found in Incheon and Gyeonggi-do Province.
Seoul and Pyongyang are stepping up cultural cooperation through joint studies on historic relics.
개성특집(2) 공민왕릉 / The mausoleums of King Kong Min (31st king) (Kaesong - World Heritage)
Korea's Historical Relics Listed as World's Cultural Heritages
Pyongyang, June 24 (KCNA) -- It was decided at the 37th Meeting of the World Heritage Committee of the UNESCO to register historical relics in Kaesong City, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, as world's cultural heritages.
Kaesong was a capital city of Koryo Dynasty (918-1392), the first unified state in Korea, for nearly 500 years.
More than 90 kinds of relics are preserved in the city.
Among the relics listed as world's heritages this time are the mausoleums of King Wang Kon (1st king) and King Kong Min (31st king), South Gate of Kaesong, Kaesong Walls, Sungyang School, Monument to Loyalty, Sonjuk Bridge, Koryo Songkyunkwan Academy, Manwol Pavilion, Kaesong Chomsongdae (astronomical observatory) and two groups of tombs.
The mausoleum of King Kong Min is, in particular, preserved in original state. It is an earth-covered stone grave with remains of the king and the queen buried in it. The grave is believed to be built from 1365 to 1372 at the initiative of King Kong Min.
The group of Myongrung tombs is located in a row, three of which stand at intervals of 25 meters or 50 meters respectively between the mausoleums of kings Kong Min and Wang Kon.
The group of seven tombs is located at the foot of Mt. Mansu in Haeson-ri.
The tombs were robbed by the Japanese invaders during their colonial rule over Korea.
Believed to be built in 1391-1393, the South Gate, situated in the heart of Kaesong City, was burnt by the U.S. bombing in December 1950 during the Korean War (1950-1953), but it was restored to original state in 1954.
The relics give a glimpse of the development of the national culture in the period of the dynasty.
Tourists from Switzerland, the Netherlands, Britain and other countries are coming to the city to see the relics.
The recent registration of 12 kinds of relics as the world's heritages, in the wake of the registration of the Koguryo tomb murals at the 28th Meeting held in China in 2004, raises the Korean people's national pride.
Found the well of Goguryeo
In Daesung district located in Pyeongyang, two wells built in Goguryeo dynasty were discovered.
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COMPLEX OF GOGURYEO TOMBS, NORTH KOREA
Gangseo Daemyo (Tumulus): The Spirit of Goguryeo(Koguryo)
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KING TONGMYONG'S THOMB BEFORE RENOVATION
This is the King Tongmyong's thomb before its renovation in 1990 (see the video footage of the new thomb) near Pyongyang in North Korea.
The Stele of Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo
The Stele of Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo
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The stele of Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo was erected in 414 by Jangsu of Goguryeo as a memorial to his deceased father. It is one of the major primary sources extant for the history of Goguryeo, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, and supplies invaluable historical detail on his reign as well as insights into Goguryeo mythology. It stands near the tomb of Gwanggaeto in what is today the city of Ji'an along the Yalu River in present-day northeast China, which was the capital of Goguryeo at that time. It is carved out of a single mass of granite, stands nearly 7 meters tall and has a girth of almost 4 meters. The inscription is written exclusively in Classical Chinese and has 1802 characters. The stele has also become a focal point of varying national rivalries in East Asia manifested in the interpretations of the stele's inscription and the place of the Empire of Goguryeo in modern historical narratives. An exact replica of the Gwanggaeto Stele stands on the grounds of War Memorial of Seoul and the rubbed copies made in 1881 and 1883 are in the custody of China and the National Museum of Japan, respectively, testament to the stele's centrality in the history of Korea and part of Manchuria. The stele's location, in Ji'an in the northeastern Chinese province of Jilin, was key to its long neglect. Following the fall of Goguryeo in 668, and to a lesser extent the fall of its successor state Balhae in 926, the region drifted outside the sway of both Chinese and Korean geopolitics. Afterwards the region came under the control of numerous Manchurian states, notably the Jurchen and from the 16th century the Manchu. When the Manchu conquered China in 1644 and established their hegemony, they guarded their ancestral homeland in Manchuria, prohibiting movement there by any non-Manchu peoples. This seclusion came to an end at the end of the 19th century, when the region was opened up for Han Chinese emigration. Manchuria thereafter became the coveted prize of vying regional powers, notably Russia and Japan for its rich natural resources and strategic location. The opening up of Manchuria also resulted in the influx of Chinese and Japanese scholars, the latter often supplemented by Japanese spies traveling incognito to spy the region's fortifications and natural layout, prescient of a future of increased international rivalry. In the late 19th century many new arrivals to the region around Ji'an began making use of the many bricks and baked tiles that could be found in the region to build new dwellings. The curious inscriptions on some of these tiles soon reached the ears of Chinese scholars and epigraphers. Many were found to bear an inscription in ancient Chinese script reading: May the mausoleum of the Great King be secure like a mountain and firm like a peak. It was around 1875 that an amateur Chinese epigrapher Guan Yueshan, scrounging for more samples of such tiles around Ji'an, discovered the mammoth stone stele of Gwanggaeto obscured under centuries of mud and overgrowth. The clearing away of the stele's face invariably led to the damaging of its engraved text. Almost every inch of the stele's four sides were found to be covered with Chinese characters (nearly 1800 in total), each about the size of a grown man's hand. The discovery soon attracted scholars from Japan, Russia, and France. In 1883 a young Japanese officer named Sakō Kageaki traveling in the guise of an itinerant Buddhist monk arrived in Ji'an. Sakō had been ordered from his last post in Beijing to proceed back to Japan via Manchuria and to make detailed observations there of the region's layout. It was while traveling through Liaoning that he apparently heard of the stele's recent discovery and managed to procure an ink rubbing of the stele's face to carry back to his homeland. It was scholars in Japan who were to make the first detailed analysis of the stele's ancient text.
The inscription of the stele can be found in some of the sites listed below.
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Kong Mings Tomb near Kaesong Part 2 North Korea September 2013
The Rise and Fall of Goguryeo
The Kingdom of Goguryeo from its founding in 37 BCE to its fall to the Silla-Tang Alliance in 668 CE.
Territorial changes throughout the video:
37 BCE - Goguryeo founded in Jolbon.
36 BCE - Conquered the city-state of Biryu along the upper Yalu River.
32 BCE - Conquered the city-state of Haeng'in around Paektu Mountain.
28 BCE - Conquered Northern Okjeo.
14 - Subjugated the Xuantu Commandery.
26 - Conquered the city-state of Gaema in the Kaema Plateau.
32 - Subjugated the Lelang Commandery.
37 - Annexed the Lelang Commandery.
44 - Lost the Lelang Commandery to the Han Dynasty.
56 - Conquered Eastern Okjeo.
302 - Annexed the Xuantu Commandery.
311 - Conquered Xi'anping in eastern Liaodong.
313 - Conquered the Lelang Commandery and subjugated Eastern Ye.
314 - Conquered the Daifang Commandery.
369 - Lost the Hwanghae Province region to Baekje.
377 - Regained southern cities from Baekje.
392 - Regained all of Hwanghae Province from Baekje.
395 - Subjugated Khitan tribes along the Xar Moron River in Inner Mongolia.
398 - Conquered Sushen tribes in eastern Manchuria and Primorsky Krai.
400 - Annexed Eastern Ye and subjugated Silla.
405 - Conquered Liaodong.
406 - Advanced northwards.
410 - Conquered Eastern Buyeo and subjugated Northern Buyeo.
454 - Lost control of Silla.
475 - Conquered the Han River region from Baekje.
481 - Conquered cities from Silla.
494 - Annexed Northern Buyeo.
507 - Subjugated various Mohe tribes in eastern Manchuria and Primorsky Krai, most notably the Yuexi tribe.
551 - Lost the Han River region to Silla and Baekje.
552 - Lost Gangwon, Kangwon, and parts of Hamgyeong Province to Silla.
553 - Negotiated borders with Silla up to approximately the border of modern-day Kangwon.
608 - Regained north of the Han River from Silla.
628 - Lost control of the Khitan tribes to the stabilized Tang dynasty.
629 - Lost the Han River area to Silla.
645 - The first Goguryeo-Tang War; lost the Liaodong region to the Tang.
646 - Tang retreat.
661 - The second Goguryeo-Tang War; Tang advances beyond the Yalu river while Silla forces march up from the south.
662 - Tang and Silla retreat after a Goguryeo pyrrhic victory.
667 - The third Goguryeo-Tang war; Tang conquers Liaodong and the Buyeo region, and breaks through the Yalu defense line. Silla forces march up from the south again.
668 - The siege and fall of Pyongyang by Tang and Silla forces.
Some kings were skipped throughout the video because there were no significant border changes during their reigns: here's the list of them.
6. Emperor Taejo or King Taejodae, r. 53-146
7. Emperor Cha or King Chadae, r. 146-165
8. Emperor Sin or King Sindae, r. 165-179
9. King Gogukcheon, r. 179-197
10. King Sansang, r. 197-227
11. King Dongcheon, r. 227-248
12. King Jungcheon, r. 248-270
13. King Seocheon, r. 270-292
14. King Bongsang, r. 292-300
15. King Micheon, r. 300-331
16. King Gogugwon, r. 331-371
19. King Gwanggaeto the Great, r. 391-413
20. King Jangsu, r. 413-491
21. King Munjamyeong, r. 491-519
22. King Anjang, r. 519-531
23. King Anwon, r. 531-545
24. King Yangwon, r. 545-559
25. King Pyeongwon, r. 559-590
26. King Yeongyang, r. 590-618
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